pleached en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /pliːtʃt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /plit͡ʃt/ (General-American)
Etymology
From pleach + -ed.
Meanings
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Entwined, intertwined, interwoven, plaited.
Would'ſt thou be window'd in great Rome, and ſee / Thy Maſter thus with pleacht Armes, bending downe / His corrigible necke, his face ſubdu'de / To penetratiue ſhame; [...]
c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xiv], page 362, column 2:
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Of a hedge, trees, etc.: created by interweaving branches.
I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp.
1857, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Days:The garden ended in [...] pleached fruit trees.
2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 229:[T]he prince and Count Claudio, walking in a thicke pleached alley in mine orchard, were thus much ouer-heard by a man of mine: [...]
1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more pleached | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most pleached | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |