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Placket

noun
1.
A piece of cloth sewn under an opening.





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... boat of nine men, who found not a man on board her, (and her laying so near them was a main temptation to them to come on;) and presently a man went up and struck her flag and jacke, and a trumpeter sounded upon her "Joan's placket is torn:" [Placket: the open part of a woman's petticoat.] that they did carry her down at a time, both for tides and wind, when the best pilot in Chatham would not have undertaken it, they heeling her on one side to make her draw little water: and so carried ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys


Words linked to "Placket" :   piece of material, piece of cloth, skirt


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