pleach verb & noun. [pli:tʃ] LME.
[Old French (mod. dial. plêcher), var. of ple
i. ssier, pla
i. ssier PLASH verb¹.]
A. verb trans.
1. Interlace (bent-down or partly cut stems and branches of young trees and brushwood) to form a fence or hedge. Cf. PLASH verb¹ 1. LME.

2. Make or renew (a hedge or fence) by the above process. Cf. PLASH verb¹ 2. E16.

3. transf. Entwine, interlace, tangle, plait. M19.
■ A. C. Swinburne Poppied hair of gold Persephone..pleached..about her brows.
b. noun. Interlacing or intertwining of boughs; a flexible branch or stem; an intertwined arrangement of these, forming a hedge. E19.

■ pleached adjective (a) (esp. of a walk or arbour) formed by pleaching of boughs and twigs, fenced or overarched with pleached boughs; (b) interlaced, intertwined, tangled: L16.

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