PLACKET

Placket

A placket is an opening in the upper part of trousers or skirts, or at the neck or sleeve of a garment. Plackets are almost always used to allow clothing to be put on or removed easily, but are sometimes used purely as a design element. Modern plackets often contain fabric facings or attached bands to surround and reinforce fasteners such as buttons, snaps, or zippers.

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placket

Noun

  1. a slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings
    • 1922: Dislike dressing together. Nicked myself shaving. Biting her nether lip, hooking the placket of her skirt. — James Joyce, Ulysses
    • 2001: When the placket of his shirt gave way, the stones tore freely into the skin on his chest and back, and he no longer imagined Lucy Hartley enjoying his guitar serenades – he wondered if he would get to the roof alive. — Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil
  2. A petticoat, especially an under petticoat.
  3. A woman.
  4. A woman's pocket.


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