plat
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The homeless are served entrée, plat, dessert, plus a cheese course and wine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Nichols’ restrictions started with a few sentences on neighborhood plat documents and eventually ran for a few pages.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2023
Pope, bald, with a trimmed white beard, sat amid stacks of plat maps and paper diagrams of the canals, surrounded by LCD screens with spreadsheets marking volumes of water and their destinations.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2022
You’d hope all the wetlands are clearly marked on the plat map.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
I sat down and asked the waiter what the plat du jour was.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
It’s sort of sleepy at the moment, like a city that has been platted but not fully built, with a lot of open space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
Some were “dream towns” imagined by real estate developers, planned and platted and sold, but never born.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
Together, they platted Centralia and established Centralia’s public square, first church and cemetery.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2020
Most of Dansville hadn’t been platted, meaning there was no legal map showing divisions of the land.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2018
The village was surveyed and platted March 24, 1886; Chas.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
Shark said that SDCI, per land code, looks for alternative divisions of land to maximize tree retention while platting new lots for development.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
In 1907, they passed a bill authorizing the platting and selling of shoreland around Lake Union and Lake Washington.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
It’s really, really impressive — the platting of all those strands.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2019
The county finished platting, aside from a portion in the northwest corner, paving the way for housing.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2018
That evening, while platting my hasty survey, I found time to frame an apology, which I think took the rude, primitive form of a confession that I had spoken like a malicious idiot.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce
