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, […] ‎, 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

• “plighted, adj2.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Etymology 2

Verb

plighted

1. simple past and past participle of plight