Noun:

कपड़े की तह, चुनट, लट, बेनी, चोटी,

Verb:

चोटी करना, तह करना, गूंथ रखना, गूंथना,

plaits's Usage Examples:

The hair is sometimes worn plaited (choti), usually an odd number of thin plaits made into one large one, falling down the back and fastened at the end with ribbons.

head and cut across in a straight line; behind it is divided into very many small plaits, which hang down the back, and are lengthened by silken cords, and often adorned with gold coins and ornaments.

The plaiters work up the material in a damp state, either into whole straw or split straw plaits.

Tuscan plaits and hats vary enormously in quality and value; the plait of a hat of good quality may represent the work of four or five days, while hats of the highest quality may each occupy six to nine months in making.

The straw of Tuscany, specially grown for plaiting, is distinguished into three qualities - Pontederas Semone being the finest, Mazzuolo the second quality, from which the bulk of the plaits are made, while from the third quality, Santa Fioro, only "Tuscan pedals" and braids are plaited.

The mesenteries are provided with well-developed longitudinal retractor muscles, supported on longitudinal folds or plaits of the mesogloea, so that in cross-section they have a branched appearance.

The most valuable straw for plaits is grown in Tuscany, and from it the well-known Tuscan plaits and Leghorn hats are made.

The plaits are sewed partly by hand and in a special sewing-machine, and the hats or bonnets are finished by stiffening with gelatin size and blocking into shape with the aid of heat and powerful pressure, according to the dictates of fashion.

It is only in certain areas that straw suitable for making plaits is produced.

Both plaits and hats are largely exported.

Synonyms:

plication, bend, fold, tuck, crease, pleat, crimp, box pleat, flexure, knife pleat, inverted pleat, kick pleat,

Antonyms:

open, stay, uncross, unfold, extension,