English Dictionary

placket

/ˈplækɪt/

noun

A slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings / (obsolete) A petticoat, especially an underpetticoat. / (obsolete, slang, by extension) A woman.

She sewed a button on the placket of her shirt.

意味（1）

A slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings

Dislike dressing together. Nicked myself shaving. Biting her nether lip, hooking the placket of her skirt.

意味（2）

(obsolete) A petticoat, especially an underpetticoat.

Is there no manners left among maids? will they wear their plackets where they should bear their faces?

意味（3）

(obsolete, slang, by extension) A woman.

[…] was that brave [hart] made to pant for a placket: and now i’th’ dog-days too, when nothing dare love!

意味（4）

(obsolete) A woman's pocket.

意味（5）

(historical) A leather jacket strengthened with strips of steel.

意味（6）

(historical) An additional plate of steel on the lower half of the breastplate or backplate.