placket
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Is placket a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of placket?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A petticoat, especially an underpetticoat.Examples: "Is there no manners left among maids?VVill they vveare their plackets vvhere they ſhould bear their faces?"obsolete
2. (obsolete, slang, by extension) A woman.Examples: "[…]: after this,the vengeance on the vvhole Camp,or rather,the bone-ach,for that,me thinkes is the curſe dependant on thoſe that vvarre for a placket."; "[…] was that brave [hart] made to pant for a placket: and now i’th’ dog-days too, when nothing dare love!"broadlyobsoleteslang
3. (obsolete) A woman's pocket.obsolete
4. (historical) A leather jacket strengthened with strips of steel.historical
5. (historical) An additional plate of steel on the lower half of the breastplate or backplate.Synonyms: placcat, placcatehistorical
Definition source: Wiktionary