He would stand an hour at a cottage door, admiring the little girls who were straw-Platting, and then walk into the nearest farmhouses, to suggest the feasibility of "a national straw-plat association."
"The Caxtons, Part 2"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
My Leghorn hat, on the contrary, here, as in The Mountains, is an object of admiration, on account of the fineness of the Platting.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson
Barbara sat on a bare ledge of rock above the road-side, Platting clovers.
"John March, Southerner"
George W. Cable