Definition of "pleating" []

• Present participle of pleat. (verb)
• An action or arrangement in which something is pleated. (noun)

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• "The pleating may be caught together at top and bottom of box pleat, and it is then known as _rose pleating_."
• "This is the time to prove your worth, because no matter how accessible I have promised to be, there will come a time when I will begin to reject your phone calls pleating for long distance assistance."
• "Indeed, Mr. Tait has persuasively combined sports and couture in a different way and the pleating is an imaginative way to give texture and a sense of energy to the clothes while being very much about craft."