Etymology

plisse

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Today it means: A fabric treated so as to be permanently puckered or crinkled. Full definition →

French plissé ← Middle French plier ← Old French ploiier
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*pel-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pleḱ-
  3. Latinplicō
  4. Old Frenchploiier
  5. Middle Frenchplier
  6. Frenchplierbf.
  7. Frenchpli
  8. Frenchplisser
  9. Frenchplissé
  10. English todayplisse

Borrowed from French plissé.

Words from the same roots

Frenchplissé all →

plissé

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.