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English
Etymology
From Latin plicatura, from plicare (“to fold”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈplɪkət͡ʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈplɪkətjʊə(ɹ)/
Noun
plicature (plural plicatures)
- (archaic outside sciences) A doubling; a fold; a plication.
1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ , or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, ”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 1, stanza 18, page 5:For no man can unfold / The many plicatures ſo cloſely preſt / At loweſt verge.
References
Latin
Participle
plicātūre
- vocative masculine singular of plicātūrus