Language is a living, mobile being, it is constantly growing, changing: some words appear in it, others die in oblivion, and others come to it from other world languages.
The strange, not immediately clear noun "accordion pleats" clearly came to us from European countries.
Meaning of the word “accordion pleats”
As you might guess after the first meaningful look at the word, it came into Russian from French (pli - “fold”) and means:
- Very small parallel, even folds on the fabric. Making accordion pleats is painstaking and very difficult work, it requires certain skills, perseverance and hard work, even now, when almost the entire process is as automated as possible.
- Pleated fabric. Example: "For a birthday, Marina was presented with a very beautiful skirt, sewn from a dense pleated."
- A rim sewn in a special way, with small even folds, designed to decorate women's clothing. Example: “The trousers below were pleated and not very suitable for long walks.”
Morphology of the word "pleated"
Pleated is an inanimate noun. In addition, it is a household word. The genus of the word "pleated" is average. The plural does not form.
Declination
The noun "pleated", like many words borrowed from French, is not inclined, that is, it does not change in cases and numbers, in all forms and positions it has the same word form - "pleated".
For instance:
- Plisse is a very beautiful decoration, made in the form of small folds of the same width (nominative case).
- Unfortunately, in our store there is no pleated purple chiffon (genitive).
- Do not touch my pleated, you remember it (dative case).
- An inexperienced seamstress could not sew a pleat to the skirt evenly (accusative case).
- All night Margarita Ivanovna tried to cope with the accordion pleats (instrumental case).
- In those days, nothing was known about the accordion pleats, although something similar was sewed (prepositional case).
What can be a pleated?
What adjectives does the borrowed noun "accordion pleat" combine with? It can be:
- fashionable;
- beautiful;
- refined;
- chic;
- expensive
- Defiant
- delightful;
- flowing;
- by air;
- crumpled;
- ridiculous;
- strange
- exciting;
- old
- decrepit;
- worn out;
- faded;
- different;
- bright;
- modest;
- elegant;
- old fashioned.
In addition, it:
- causes delight / envy;
- attracts;
- fits / goes;
- striking;
- it is surprising;
- decorates;
- young;
- impressive;
- disfigures;
- spoils;
- hesitates;
- erased;
- dries;
- is an.
7 sentences with the word "accordion pleats"
In the sentences below, the word order is violated, you need to correct this misunderstanding:
- pleated, look, what, beautiful, Mom, decorated, and, flounce, skirt.
- Pleated, it is, complex, of, one, types, most, folds.
- out, came out, fashion, already, pleated.
- Pleated, it is, folds, small, very.
- relevant, always, accordion pleats.
- pleated, fashion, squeak, last, tiniest.
- failed, Pleated, never, to me.
Interesting about "pleated"
In villages and villages, they also knew how to pleat fabric in an original way: hot loaves of bread were laid on clothes folded into small folds.
The Spanish fashion designer Fortuni i Madraso, who introduced the first pleated tunics at the exhibition in 1907 and became obligatory in the wardrobe of fashionistas from the beginning of the twentieth century, became the inventor of pleating in a modern design.
Not every fold is a pleated, but only those that are already five centimeters.
Our grandmothers washed pleated clothes, placing them in a stocking, dried only vertically. Some of them tightly sewed the folds before washing, so that not a single fold had a chance to part. And others tried not to wash such things at all.
Nowadays we have learned to make an eternal pleated, so you don’t have to go to dirty things. But still, you should adhere to several rules:
- Products made of very thin, expensive and delicate fabrics are best cleaned in a professional dry cleaning using special professional cleaning products.
- For synthetics, which you can risk washing even in a washing machine, you should use only special mild agents, do not squeeze and dry only strictly vertically.
- But large folds can still be quilted, taking advantage of the experience of their ancestors.
A very long skirt in the floor or a pleated dress plus high heels will make the figure visually slimmer and taller, but the fat women do not need to get involved in this style of clothing.
Plisse is found in Egyptian frescoes, but wearing such clothes was a special prerogative of men. Women were able to show off in such robes only in the 18th century.
Choose fabric
Formerly, pleated, soft, flowing, almost airy fabrics were used: silk, chiffon, crepe. But now the fashion industry has gone far ahead and there is pleated denim, leather, wool, even drape.
Answers to the task
- Mom, look what a beautiful skirt adorned with a flounce and pleated.
- Plisse is one of the most difficult types of folds.
- Pleated is already out of fashion.
- Pleated - these are very small folds.
- Pleated is always true.
- The smallest pleated - the latest fashion.
- Pleated never succeeded.