plighted

English

Etymology 1

From plight (“plait, fold”) +‎ -ed.

Adjective

plighted (comparative more plighted, superlative most plighted)

  1. (obsolete) Having plights; pleated; plated; folded.
    • 1588, A Collection in English, of the Statutes now in force, […] ‎[1], London:  […] Deputies of Chriſtopher Barker:
      Clothes ſhall not bee tacked oꝛ plighted tyll the Auneger hath ſearched them.
    • 1708, Richard Newcourt, Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London, volume 1, London:  […] Benj. Motte, page 281:
      They were call'd Blackfriers from their black Weed or Garmeat, which conſiſts in a white Caſſock and a Patience, over which they wear a Hood all of the ſame Colour: But when they go abroad, they put over their white Cloths a black plighted Cloak with a black Hood.

Further reading

Etymology 2

Verb

plighted

  1. simple past and past participle of plight
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