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pilch

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Searchable Lemmata: pylece (OE), pilche (ME), pellec (Ir), pilch (OScots), pilch (MdE).
Alternate Forms: pelche, pilchche, pulche, pylcan, pyleceon, pylche, pilches.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Raw Material; outer garment made of animal skin, often still covered with fur. Used of the garments which covered the genitals of Adam and EVe. Later used to refer more generally to outer garments made from hide or trimmed with fur. Etymologically this is the same word as pelisse (q.v.).(ante 900 still in current use)
1. pellicia : pylce [DOE ÆGl (0899 (315.3))]
2. Hwi worhte God pylcan Adame & Euan æfter þam gylte? [DOE ÆIntSig (0144 (42.283))]
3. Hwæt þa se cyngc Malcolm & his sweoster Margareta geafon him myccla geofa & manega gærsama & eallon his mannan, on scynnan mid pælle betogen, & on merðerne pyleceon, & graschynnene, & hearmascynnene, & on pællon, & on gyldenan faton, & on seolfrenan, & hine & ealle his scyperan mid mycclan weorðscipe of his gryðe alædde. [DOE ChronD (Cubbin) (0969 (1075.9))]
4. Two pilches weren ðurg engeles wrogt And to adam and to eue brogt Biblical/Hagiographic, Poetic. [MED Gen.& Ex. ((Corp-C 444) 377) ante 1325]
5. [340] ... Sche tar ... here cloþ, Here kirtel, here pilche [vr. furre] of ermine, Here keuerchefs of silk, here smok o line ... Sche to rent bineþen here brest. Heroic, Historic, Poetic. [MED 7 Sages(1) ((Auch) 17/340-341) circa 1330]
6. Þey wereþ nevere lynnen clooþ ... but þe heer next þe flesche and above þe curtelle of wolle and a pilche Historic. [MED Trev.Higd. ((StJ-C H.1) 7.307) ante 1387]
7. The wolfes skynn is hoot for to make cuffes [F moufles] or pilches, but þe furrour þerof nys not faire [MED York MGame ((Vsp B.12) 35) circa 1410]
8. Honur his berde ouer oþer he walde, His berd ouer oþer, forto be beste In his pilche it sulde be a dreste Heroic, Historic. [MED Castleford Chron. ((Göt Hist 740) 22292) ante 1425]
9. [394] ... Perre, perle: Margarita ... Peerle: Margarita, granulum ... [396] ... Pyke, of a schoo: Liripium ... [397] .... pylche: pellicium, pellicia ... [398] ... Pylet, skyn: Pellis Gloss. [MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 394-8) circa 1440]
Ir, ME, MdE, OE, OScots; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
1b(n.) Garment; specifically, a garment made from the beards of men.(ante 1350 - ante 1450 ?)
1. Honur his berde ouer oþer he walde, His berd ouer oþer, forto be beste In his pilche it sulde be a dreste Heroic, Historic. [MED Castleford Chron. ((Göt Hist 740) 22292) ante 1425]
ME; Primarily Heroic.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: Secular    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old English, ultimately from Latin pellicia (see pelisse); possibly an early, pre-650 borrowing.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog: pellicium (L), pelisse (MdE).
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