Definition of Pilches

1. Noun. (plural of pilch) ¹

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Definition of Pilches

1. pilch [n] - See also: pilch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilches

pilar tumour of scalp
pilary
pilaster
pilastered
pilasters
pilastre
pilau
pilaus
pilaw
pilaws
pilch
pilchard
pilchards
pilcher
pilchers
pilches (current term)
pilcorn
pilcorns
pilcrow
pilcrows
pile
pile-up
pile-ups
pile driver
pile drivers
pile dwelling
pile on
pile on the pounds
pile up

Literary usage of Pilches

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"His coates were fit for the weather; His pilch made of swines' leather." The Smith, in the Cobler of Canterbury, 1608. pilches of otter ..."

2. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors by Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"And the said three pilches were delivered to John de Stokesby, one of the ushers of the Exchequer, to be carried to Ralph de Stokes, clerk of the King's ..."

3. British Reformers by Bale, John, Coverdale, Miles, John Foxe (1842)
"... they were stoned, hewn asunder, tempted, fell, and were slain upon the edge of the sword; some wandered to and fro in sheeps' pilches,* in goats' ..."

4. British Reformers by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, Board of Publication (1842)
"... in goats' pilches, forsaken, oppressed, afflicted: such godly men, as the world was unworthy of, wandering in the wilderness, in mountains, in caves, ..."

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