Placate vs. Placket — What's the Difference?

Make (someone) less angry or hostile

A placket (also spelled placquet) is an opening in the upper part of trousers or skirts, or at the neck or sleeve of a garment. Plackets are almost always used to allow clothing to be put on or removed easily but are sometimes used purely as a design element.

To allay the anger of, especially by making concessions; appease.

An opening or slit in a garment, as at the collar or sleeve of a shirt, that makes the garment easy to put on.

(transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.

A pocket, especially in a skirt.

Same as Placard, 4 & 5.

A slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings

To appease; to pacify; to concilate.

(obsolete) A petticoat, especially an underpetticoat.

Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;

A woman.

(obsolete) A woman's pocket.

(historical) A leather jacket strengthened with strips of steel.

(historical) An additional plate of steel on the lower half of the breastplate or backplate.

A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.

The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; - called also placket hole.

A woman's pocket.

A piece of cloth sewn under an opening