pleached
English
Etymology
From pleach + -ed.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pliːtʃt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /plit͡ʃt/
- Rhymes: -iːtʃt
Adjective
pleached (comparative more pleached, superlative most pleached)
- Entwined, intertwined, interwoven, plaited.
- c. 1606–1607, 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 606515358, [Act IV, scene xiv], page 362, column 2:
- 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; [...]
- Would you be looking through a window in great Rome, and see / Your Master thus, with entwined arms [tied together], bending down / His docile neck, his face subdued / with shame penetrating through [i.e. blushing]; [...]
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- (horticulture) Of a hedge, trees, etc.: created by interweaving branches.
- 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 932921146, [Act I, scene ii]:
- [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: [...]
- 1857, Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Days":
- I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp.
- 2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 229:
- The garden ended in [...] pleached fruit trees.
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Verb
pleached
- simple past tense and past participle of pleach