knife pleat

1. 1.

   a single pleat turned in one direction

   Broaderpleat

   Narrowersunburst pleat

Questions about knife pleat

What does knife pleat mean?

knife pleat means "a single pleat turned in one direction".

Is knife pleat a common word?

knife pleat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.