pli

pli c (singular definite plien, not used in plural form)

1. decency, good manners
   • 2015, Haidi Wigger Klaris, Dæmonherskerens arving #1: Skyggernes Bog, Tellerup A/S →ISBN

     Hun tøvede, men til sidst overvandt nysgerrigheden dog alligevel plien.

     She hesitated, but ultimately, curiosity did defeat good manners after all.

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   • 1903, L. L. Zamenhof, Fundamenta Krestomatio, Project Gutenberg transcription

     Du homoj povas pli multe fari ol unu.

     Two people can do much more than one.

• malpli

• IPA^(key): [pliː]

pli n

1. young seagull
2. cry of a seagull

• (young seagull): mási

pli

1. cry of a seagull

   másin sigur pli

   the seagull says pli

From the verb plier.

• IPA^(key): /pli/

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pli m (plural plis)

1. fold
2. pleat
3. letter
4. (card games) trick

• “pli” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /pli/

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• plis

• plet
• ploy
• ply

Old French ploi, from the verb ploiier, from the Latin verb plicō (“I fold”).

pli m

1. fold
   • 1607, Loys d'Orleans, Les ouvertures des Parlements, page 332

     Car Macrobe se moque de luy d'avoir fait adiourner un homme pour luy auoir defait un des plis de sa robe.

     Because Macrobe is making fun of him for having adjourned the case of a man because he removed one of the folds from his robes.

• English: ply (borrowed)
• French: pli

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pli, supplement)

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