pleatings

Aileen had created an impression in a street costume of dark blue silk with velvet pelisse to match, and trimmed with elaborate pleatings and shirrings of the same materials.

The Financier 2004

Hat frames are covered with maline; it is used to cover wings to keep feathers in place; to cover faded or worn-out flowers; for shirred brims and crowns; for pleatings; for folds on edges of brims to give a soft look; and for bows.

Make Your Own Hats Gene Allen Martin

Now what neither Keineth nor Peggy, nor even Mrs. Lee could guess was that beneath the folds of expensive linen and lace and dainty pleatings of rose silk was a heart that was just hungry because -- years and years before -- it had forgotten "how to have fun!"

Keineth Jane Abbott

With their silly -- whaleboned waists and their grotesque basques and impossible pleatings!

Little Miss By-The-Day Lucille Van Slyke

Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper).

Try Anything Twice 1938

She prinked out its ruffles and pleatings as she went.

Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

Then there was the bed-canopy, the pleatings of which were gone, and it was turned white instead of the old blue.

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

Then there was the bed-canopy, the pleatings of which were gone, and it was turned white instead of the old blue.

Richard Carvel — Volume 08 Winston Churchill 1909

Then there was the bed-canopy, the pleatings of which were gone, and it was turned white instead of the old blue.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

'Twas late when I awoke the next day with something of a dull ache in my neck, and a prodigious stiffness, studying the pleatings of the bed canopy over my head.

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909