pleached

Entwined, intertwined, interwoven, plaited.

Adjective

  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; [...] - c. 1606–1607 (date written), William...
  2. Of a hedge, trees, etc.: created by interweaving branches.
    • [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. […],...
    • I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp. - 1857, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Days:
    • The garden ended in [...] pleached fruit trees. - 2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 229:

Origin

From pleach + -ed.

Forms

more pleached most pleached

Derived

self-pleached unpleached

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of pleach