pleatern.
/ˈpliːtə/, U.S. /ˈplidər/ A person who or machine which pleats fabric.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > pleating > one who pleats or folds fabric
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1883 Bismarck (Dakota Territory) Tribune 5 Oct. 7/3 The following is a list of the presents made... E. M. Wilson, improved pleater.
1910 Perry (Iowa) Daily Chief 2 Feb. The skirt marker, a device for evening the bottom of the skirt, and the hem marker and pleater.
1931 Daily Express 1 Sept. 9/7 Crowds surrounded the Hanover-square building of Worth's, the famous dressmakers, when fire was located in the basement, occupied by a firm of tailors' suit pleaters.
1992 Sew Beautiful (U.S.) Special Occasions Issue 25/1 Jann slept on this, and the next morning cut a new front and basted it to wax paper before running it through the pleater.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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