plaitern.
/ˈplatə/, U.S. /ˈpleɪdər/, /ˈplædər/ A person who or thing which plaits.straw-plaiter: see also the first element.
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [noun] > plaiting > one who or that which
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platter1818
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Plaiter, he that plaits.
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 432 Our weavers, taylors, and plaiters of false hair.
1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl II. 87 Asses laden with straw for the plaiter's market on the morrow.
1878 Times 5 Dec. 10/2 Mary, Queen of Scots, brought straw-plaiters from Lorraine to Scotland, and her son, James I. of England, removed them to Luton, where the trade has flourished ever since.
1961 C. H. D. Todd Pop. Whippet 53 A bandy-legged mover or a ‘weaver’ or a ‘plaiter’ would never be acceptable to me as a brood bitch.
1963 T. Morris & P. Morris Pentonville ii. 26 In the Mat Shop there is an important distinction between the mat weavers..and the ballers, plaiters and splicers.
1996 Los Angeles Sentinel (Nexis) 25 Jan. 3 Black women now embrace braids as a means to both ethnic unity and personal expression, and longtime plaiters say the golden age of high hair art is upon us.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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