Sentence examples for plicate from inspiring English sources

The terminal portion or blade of the palm leaf is always plicate and may be either pinnate (featherlike) or palmate (fanlike).

He has a great eye for detail, but he also has a touch of the epiphenomenal imbroglios: "we listened to the muffled crepitations coming from inside"; eyebrows "plicate" foreheads.

All the plicating and muffled crepitations do jar a little with a band who featured in their line-up a man who kept time by repeatedly hitting himself over the head with a metal beer tray.