Usually means: Folding fabric into repeated patterns.
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  1. pleating: Merriam-Webster
  2. pleating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pleating: Vocabulary.com
  4. pleating: Wordnik
  5. pleating: Wiktionary
  6. pleating: Dictionary.com
  7. Pleating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. pleating: Rhymezone
  9. pleating: FreeDictionary.org
  10. pleating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. pleating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pleating: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  An action or arrangement in which something is pleated.

Similar:
plication, gather, tuck, plicature, fold, pluming, plumping, pleach, plexure, enfolding, more...

Opposite:
unpleating, smoothing, flattening

Adjectives:
permanent, fine, elaborate, narrow, vertical, horizontal, flat, heavy, like

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Similar:
plication, gather, tuck, plicature, fold, pluming, plumping, pleach, plexure, enfolding, more...

Opposite:
unpleating, smoothing, flattening

Adjectives:
permanent, fine, elaborate, narrow, vertical, horizontal, flat, heavy, like



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