Definition of Plisses

1. plisse [n] - See also: plisse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plisses

pliosaur
pliosaurs
pliosaurus
pliothermal
pliothermic
pliotron
pliotrons
plipped
plipper
plippers
plipping
pliskie
pliskies
plisky
plisse
plisses (current term)
ploat
ploated
ploating
ploats
ploce
plocytic astrocytoma
plod
plodded
plodder
plodders
plodding
ploddingly
ploddingness
ploddings

Literary usage of Plisses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Brazil [a Handbook]. (1891)
"... or cambric Fustian, or muslin Printed or with folds or plaits of the lame fabric- Batiste, tulle, or cambric, with or without lace, known as plisses. ..."

2. A History of France by John Ronald Moreton-Macdonald (1915)
"... et plisses ! on another. Le baing c'est chant, c'est sans mentir ! suggests that the disappointment of a tepid bath was common. ..."

3. A History of France by John Ronald Moreton-Macdonald (1915)
"... et plisses ! on another. Le baing c'est chant, c'est sans mentir ! suggests that the disappointment of a tepid ..."

4. The Cathedrals of England ...: 1st[-2d] Series by Frederic William Farrar, William Charles Edmund Newbolt (1899)
"... secular priests, clerks, and children with sur- plisses in great numbers." Inside the churchyard were a crowd of abbots from the great religious; ..."

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