Crossword-Solution: PLEAT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Pleat | n. & v. t. | See Plait. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| PLEAT | anagram | LEAPT, LEPTA, PALET, PALTE, PATEL, PATLE, PELAT, PELTA, PETAL, PLATE, TEPAL |
We have 143 clues for the answer “PLEAT”
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "PLEAT"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
12 +1
New Suggestion for "PLEAT"
Related word tools
Sentences with PLEAT (5)
Now, as before, there was only one road that he could take, for we passed up the crest of a ridge, a pleat as it were in the garment of the mountain, and on either side were steeps of snow on which neither horse nor man might keep his footing.
This procureur had married a very lovely lady of Paris, of whom he was jealous enough to kill her for a pleat in the sheets, for which she could not account, which would have been wrong, because honest creases are often met with.
Into that little pleat she folded the essence of herself, the wish to have and the fear of having, the wish to be and the fear of being, and her veil, falling from the edge of her hat, three inches from her face, shrouded with its tissue her half-decided little features, her rather too high cheek-bones, her cheeks which were slightly hollowed, as though Time had kissed them just too much.
Perhaps I can wrap my handkerchief carelessly round one, and I’ll keep the other round your waist, considerable, tucked under your Watteau pleat.
Her dress of flowered silk is long waisted, with a Watteau pleat behind, but with the paniers reduced to mere rudiments, as she is too tall for them.
Quotes with PLEAT (3)
Mothers, fathers, our kind, tell me again that death doesn't matter. Tell me it's just a limitation of vision ,a fold of landscape, a deep flax-and-poppy-filled gully hidden on the hill, pleat in our perception a somersault of existence, natural, even beneficent even a gift, the only key to the red-lacquered door at the end of the hall," water within water," those old stories.
The black hole of the galaxy swallows the boiling energy of human fury. Soon my waning fume will be obscured forevermore, all insignia of my ionized essence tucked into the anonymous pleat of the universe’s billowing skirt. Until the coarse earth’s rank mustiness calls for me, can I take comfort living purposefully in the rhythms of an ordinarily life? Can I unabashedly absorb the scintillating jewels in the daily milieu? Can I savor an array of pleasantries with my tongue, e…
An Arundel Tomb Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened pleat, And that faint hint of the absurd -The little dogs under their feet. Such plainness of the pre-Baroque Hardly involves the eye, until It meets his left-hand gauntlett, still Clasped empty in the other, and One sees with a sharp tender shock His hand withdrawn, holding her hand. They would not think to lie so long, Such fa…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 263 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).