pleached

comparative more pleached · superlative most pleached

1. Entwined, intertwined, interwoven, plaited.

   Would'ſt thou be window'd in great Rome, and ſee / Thy Maſter thus with pleacht Armes, bending downe / His corrigible necke, his face ſubdu'de / To penetratiue ſhame; [...]

   Would you be looking through a window in great Rome, and see / Your Master thus, with entwined arms [tied together], bending down / His docile neck, his face subdued / with shame penetrating through [i.e. blushing]; …

   c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xiv], page 362, column 2

2. agricultureOf a hedge, trees, etc.: created by interweaving branches.

   I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp.

   1857, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Days

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   [T]he prince and Count Claudio, walking in a thicke pleached alley in mine orchard, were thus much ouer-heard by a man of mine: [...]

   1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]

   The garden ended in [...] pleached fruit trees.

   2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 229

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of pleach