1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton], “Ayre Rectified. With a Digression of the Ayre.”, inThe Anatomy of Melancholy:[…], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire:[…] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps,→OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3,page220:
The best ſoyle commonly yeelds the worſt Ayre, a dry ſandyplat is fitteſt to build upon, and ſuch as is rather hilly then plaine, full of Downes, aCotſwald county, as being moſt commodious for hawking, hunting, wood, waters, and all manner of pleaſures.
1667,John Milton, “Book VIII”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC, lines455–457:
Such pleaſure took the Serpent to behold This FlouriePlat, the ſweet receſs ofEve Thus earlie, thus alone; [...]
O Blackbird! sing me something well: / While all the neighbours shoot thee round, / I keep smoothplats of fruitful ground, / Where thou may’st warble, eat, and dwell.
[W]e come to a spot which must have been a favorite resting-place for the poet, a low stone seat under a huge live oak, with a formalplat of grass and a stone seat opposite.
1580,Richard Hakluyt, “Notes in Writing, besides More Priuie by Mouth, that were Giuen by M. Richard Hakluyt,[…], Anno 1580: To M. Arthur Pet, and to M. Charles Iackman, Sent by the Merchants of the Moscouie Companie for the Discouerie of the Northeast Straight,[…]”, inThe Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation,[…], London:[…] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies toChristopher Barker,[…], published1589,→OCLC,page460:
For which cauſe I wiſh you to enter into conſideration of the matter, & to note all the Iſlands, and to ſet them downe inplat, to two ends: that is to ſay, That we may deuiſe to take the benefit by them, And alſo foreſee how by them the Sauages or ciuill Princes may in any ſort annoy us in our purpoſed trade that way.
1888,John W[orth] Kern, official reporter, “The City of Indianapolis v. Patterson”, inReports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana,[…], volume112, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bowen-Merrill Co., law publishers,→OCLC, headnote:
A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previousplat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference.
1982, Robert N[eil] Corley, Peter J. Shedd, Charles F. Floyd,Real Estate and the Law, New York, N.Y.: Business Division,Random House,→ISBN, page174; Charles F. Floyd, Marcus T. Allen, “Public Restrictions on Ownership”, inReal Estate Principles, 7th edition, Chicago, Ill.: Dearborn Real Estate Education,Dearborn Financial Publishing,2002,→ISBN,page75:
The purpose of the preapplication conference is to allow the developer to meet informally with the planning board before going to the expense of preparing a formalplat.
2005 November 23, Aharon N. Varady, “Bond Hill, Ohio, 1870–1903”, inBond Hill: Origin and Transformation of a 19th Century Cincinnati Metro-Suburb, 10th edition, Cincinnati, Oh.: Henry Watkin Press & Cosmographic Design Initiates,→ISBN,page76:
In 1877, a formalplat of the unincorporated village was published [...]. The publication of theplat, seven years after the village was laid out, likely reflected the beginning of the process toward formal incorporation of the municipality.
Besides some care is taken, so far as conveniently can be, both to give regard to the further spring of any matter tending to the entry or execution of any other or evilplat, and also upon the sight thereof, to have timely recourse to the King, to warn him and others to beware and provide for the seasonable prevention of the danger; [...]
1589,George Puttenham, chapter XII, inThe Arte of English Poesie:[…], London: Printed by Richard Field,[…],→OCLC; republished asJos[eph] Haslewood, editor,The Arte of English Poesie, London: Printed by Harding and Wright,[…], for Robert Triphook,[…],1811,→OCLC, book II (Of Proportion Poetical),page90:
[S]o shall ourplat in this one point be larger and much surmount that which[Richard] Stanihurst first tooke in hand by hisexameters dactilicke andspondaicke in the translation ofVirgillsEneidos, [...]
1888,John W[orth] Kern, official reporter, “The City of Indianapolis v. Patterson”, inReports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana,[…], volume112, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bowen-Merrill Co., law publishers,→OCLC, headnote:
A husband can not, without authority from his wife,plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes toplat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference.
1902 June 19, JusticeHoratio Rogers Jr., Edward C. Stiness, reporter, “Ellen Dawsonet al. vs. Robert Broome”, inReports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, volume24, Providence, R.I.: E. L. Freeman & Sons, printers to the state, published1903,→OCLC,page371:
Heplatted his land, extending the lateral lines of the lots south of Shore, or India street, indefinitely out into the river.
[...] it may vacate a street where the original Owner has merelyplatted his land to conform to streets already located and established by the municipality, where no lot has been sold by such owner prior to such vacation.
2005, Carolyn Cartier, “San Francisco and the Left Coast”, in Carolyn Cartier, Alan A. Lew, editors,Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes (Critical Geographies;19), Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.:Routledge,→ISBN,page138:
Vistas in San Francisco—a city whose real estate developmentplatted out land geometrically and gridded over a series of hills—offer vertical, stunning viewscapes of architecture and the Bay, natural and built environments.
Her haire nor looſe nor ti'd in formallplat, / Proclaimd in her a careleſſe hand of pride; [...]
c.1806, record in the journals of Lewis and Clark, recorded inThe United States Exploration Anthology (2013,→ISBN):
they also wear a cap or cup on the head formed of beargrass and cedar bark. the men also frequently attatch[sic] some small ornament to a smallplat of hair on the center of the crown of their heads.
1830,The Ladies’ Museum, volume31, page59:
[…] hair ornamented with a bandeau of gold on one side of the forehead, with a large pearl in the centre of the bandeau; on the opposite side is aplat of hair.
1824, “New Material for StrawPlat”, inThe New England Farmer, volume 2, page316:
The large silver medal and twenty guineas, were this Session given to Miss Sophia Woodhouse, (Mrs. Wells,) of Weathersfield, in Connecticut, United States, for a new Material for StrawPlat.
1829, “On British LeghornPlat for Hats and Bonnets, by Lady Harriet Bernard”, inGill’s Technological Repository, volume 4, page381:
Her Ladyship, in a letter to A. Aikin, Esq.,[…] dated Castle Bernard, Ireland, Oct. 19, 1827, states that she has made some improvement in the mode of preparing the rye-straw, which is the material forplat employed in the school under her ladyship’s patronage.
1842,The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume23:
Mr. Corston states that 781,605 straw hats had been imported from 1794 to 1803; and that in the last four years of that period 5281 lbs. of straw-plat, which was equal to 26,405 hats, had also been brought to this country.
2000, Whittington Bernard Johnson,Race Relations in the Bahamas, 1784–1834:
Eleuthera made palmettoplat for hats, arrowroot, and casaba starch.
2002, John McAllister Ulrich,Signs of Their Times,→ISBN, page45:
The most detailed example of this particular mode of production occurs in the section of Cottage Economy devoted to the making of strawplat for hats, fashioned from raw material grown in England.
And when they hadplatted a crowne of thornes, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, ſaying, haile king of the Jewes.
1844, Thomas Jefferson Jacobs,Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Pacific Ocean, page349:
A customer hailed him; he placed the stool on the ground, and the customer seated himself upon it, while the barber shaved his face,platted his hair, and washed his hands [...]
Sheplatted her hair in segments the night before, so that today she’d have a rippling effect through her hair.
1828, William Cullen Bryant, “The Cascade of Melsingah”, inThe Talisman, volume 1, New York,page206:
She carried in her hand a broad belt of wampum, and a white honeycomb from the hollow oak, and on her way she stopped andplatted a garland of the gayest flowers of the season.
1889, Henry Morley,Early Prose Romances: The history of Reynard the Fox, page149:
But else, hold alway[sic] your tail fast between your legs that he catch you not thereby; and hold down your ears lyingplat after your head that he hold you not thereby; and see wisely to yourself.
1891, Arthur Conan Doyle,The White Company:
But now, youngster, I have answered you freely, and I trow it is time that you answered me. Let things beplat and plain between us. I am a man who shoots straight at his mark.
2011, Gordon Kendall,MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, volume 7.II: Gavin Douglas,The Aenid (1513)→ISBN, page 638:
The whirling wheel and speedy swift axle-tree / Smat down to ground, and on the earth layplat.
Borg, Alexander (2004)A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies;I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill,page166
Fromplatit(“to pay”) derived fromProto-Slavic*platъ(“a piece of cloth”),[1] as pieces of cloth were used as currency. Possibly cognate withplátno(“canvas, linen”).
2016, Anne Strandvad,Vejen til Sofie, Lindhardt og Ringhof,→ISBN:
De ting, hun lavede, varplatte og måtte klemmes ud af pligt. Først når de andre spillede dem, blev de til andet end livløse slag på klaveret.
The things she made wereuninspired and had to be squeezed out by duty. It was only when others played them that they became anything else than lifeless beatings on the piano.
... at de syntes Carolines bemærkninger varplatte, ...
... that they felt Caroline's remarks to bestupid, ...
1986, Eske Holm,Den erotiske handel: roman:
Mænds fascination af Martin berørte ham meget lidt. Han syntes dog bøsserne var besværlige – han syntes, de oftest varplatte og seksuelt fikserede.
The fascination that men held for Martin affected him very little. He did however feel that the gays were troublesome – he felt that they were most ofteninsipid and sexually fixated.
1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
2015,Frans Kellendonk. Verzamelt werk. 2nd ed. (as e-book; original 1st ed. printed 2015), Querido, 2015(→ISBN;preview at Google Books)
De taal is een Bordewijkse kunsttaal, de figuren zijn geen herkenbare mensen, hetplat dat ze spreken is een synthetischplat.
The language is a Bordewijkian artificial language, the figures are not recognisable people, thedialect that they speak is a syntheticdialect.[Note:Bordewijk is a Netherlandic surename.]
“plat”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025
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