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pleating

[ UK /plˈiːtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of folding in parallel folds

How To Use pleating In A Sentence

  • I was wearing a blazing orange floor-length Grecian tunic, with pleating as fine as Fortuny silk. RESCUING ROSE
  • Indeed, Mr. Tait has persuasively combined sports and couture in a different way and the pleating is an imaginative way to give texture and a sense of energy to the clothes while being very much about craft. NYT > Home Page
  • Connolly gave it a new lease of life by the extravagant method of pleating it - pleated, it took eight metres to achieve one metre of fabric.
  • Look at how the pleating in the Virgin's headdress and halo is matched by the pattern of the rocks behind her head: brilliant artificiality or naive conceit? Gopnik's Daily Pic: Bacchiacca in Baltimore
  • Using seams, pleating and sculpting, Gaultier sent out silhouettes that traced the outline of the body then ended in dramatic flounces, drapes or pleats.
  • Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper). Try Anything Twice
  • Furthermore, we can customize the pleating production line of different specifications.
  • Attention to details such as layered ruffling, pleating, soft buttery leather, and the sparkle from a jewel is necessary! Tailored Tuesdays
  • Nor let it offend you, if I run into more large discourse, then this day hath bene used by any, for the apter compleating of my Novell: because, if you well observe it, the Sun is as yet in the middest of heaven, and therefore you may the better forbeare me. The Decameron
  • How can ethylene dibromide be an ozone depleating substance? Undefined
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