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单词 pleached
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pleachedadj.

Brit. /pliːtʃt/, U.S. /plitʃt/
Forms: see pleach v. and -ed suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pleach v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < pleach v. + -ed suffix1. Compare plashed adj. N.E.D. (1907) gives also the poetic pronunciation (plī·tʃed) /ˈpliːtʃɪd/.
1. Chiefly poetic. Fenced, bordered, or overarched with pleached boughs.Revived by Scott.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [adjective] > having arbours
pleached1600
arboured1610
bowery1713
boweringa1717
embowering1717
bowered1746
bower-enshaded1816
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. ii. 8 The prince and Count Claudio walking in a thicke pleached alley in mine orchard. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. i. 7 Bid her steale into the pleached bowere Where hony-suckles ripened by the sunne, Forbid the sunne to enter. View more context for this quotation
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. x. 263 He..proposed..that they should take a turn in the pleached alley.
1829 N. M. Beatrice in A. Cunningham Anniversary 232 She couches in the pleached bower Which tasselling honeysuckles deck.
1904 E. Wharton Ital. Villas i. 34 Montaigne alludes to the berceaux, or pleached walks, and to the close-set cypresses which made a delicious coolness in this garden.
1952 S. Sitwell Netherlands (ed. 2) ix. 124 They had a particular love, too, for pleached walks, and their gardens were divided into as many green ‘rooms’ or cabinets as they could contrive.
1987 R. Manning Corridor of Mirrors vi. 44 There are trees all around the new house: the lane up to it is like a pleached alley.
2. Interlaced, intertwined, tangled.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > arm > [adjective] > positions of
cross-armed1601
acrostic1608
pleacheda1616
unbraced1629
the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adjective] > intertwined or interwoven
writhenOE
twinedc1300
locked1488
wreathena1500
plait1529
implicatec1540
context?1541
twisted1548
weaved1552
wreathed?1552
texed1572
well-woven1578
woven1590
interlaced1593
entrailed1599
entest1608
implicit1608
folden1612
inextricate?1615
intertissueda1616
complicatea1626
enwreathed1631
interwoven1642
inwoven1667
intertwineda1680
plectilea1682
well-wove1690
implicated1761
osiered1820
inwrought1824
complected1828
impleached1829
internetted1849
enlaced1851
threaded1853
interknit1885
interwrought1895
pleached1896
interweaved1898
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xv. 73 Would'st thou..see Thy Master thus with pleacht Armes, bending downe His corrigible necke? View more context for this quotation
1896 Field 1 Dec. 828/2 The pleached laurels near the house.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 280 It was hedged with thickly pleached bushes.
1992 Univ. Oxf. Bot. Garden News Winter 11 At the International Headquarters of Pepsico can be found a large garden designed by Russell Page. Near the building he has created a modern variation of cloisters in small quadrangles, using impatiens and pleached trees.
3. Consisting of intertwined boughs and twigs; formed by pleaching.
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the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [adjective] > construction of
pleached1861
staked-and-bound1861
1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Tilbury Nogo 240 An occasional grass field, enclosed by high rotten banks and ‘pleached’ fences.
1895 A. Machen Three Imposters 103 The children were delighted to follow me..between smooth pleached walls of shining beech.
1958 J. Finberg Exploring Villages v. 84 It is generally safe to guess that a pleached hedge in the midlands is not more than two hundred years old.
2003 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 15 Mar. 1 At the top of the garden box hedges and pleached arbours are laid out in traditional patterns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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