plaited adjective. ['platɪd] LME.
[from PLAIT: see -ED², -ED¹.]
1. Having or formed into a plait or plaits. LME.
■ Addison Tho' barks or plaited willows make your hive.
■ G. Harris Two had the plaited hair and swarthy faces of Jorgan Islanders.
b. Wrinkled, corrugated, fluted, striated. E16.
plaited stitch a kind of herring-bone stitch used in worsted work or Berlin work.

2. fig. Involved, complicated, complex. LME-M17.

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