knife pleat

English

Noun

knife pleat (plural knife pleats)

A series of knife pleats

1. (sewing) A type of sharply pressed pleating, especially in a skirt or kilt, in which all of the folds are turned in one direction, with each pleat being three layers of fabric thick.

Translations

a type of sharply pressed pleating

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刀褶 (dāozhě)

• Finnish: myötälaskos
• French: pli plat m, pli couché (fr) m
• German: Messerfalte f, Quetschfalte f
• Irish: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: piega sovrapposta f
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• Persian: چین‌چین (čin-čin), چین و شکن (čin-o-šekan)
• Polish: plisa płaska f
• Portuguese: prega faca f
• Russian: пряма́я скла́дка f (prjamája skládka), односторо́нняя незастро́ченная скла́дка f (odnostorónnjaja nezastróčennaja skládka)
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• Spanish: pliegue llano m
• Welsh: pleten fflat f, pleten lafn f