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▪ I. ˈthree-piled, a.1|-paɪld|
[f. prec. + -ed2. Cf. piled ppl. a.3 2.]
1. = three-pile. Also transf. of grass, Growing thickly with a soft surface like velvet.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. ii. 35 Thou art good veluet; thou'rt a three pild peece I warrant thee. 1605Lond. Prodigal i. i. 140 Sixe peeces of vellet{ddd}a peece of Ash⁓colour, a three pilde blacke [etc.]. 1610Chester's Tri. (Chetham Soc.) 41 Our verdant pastures three pil'd greene in graine. a1861Mrs. Browning Nature's Remorses ii, On three-piled carpet of compliments.
2. fig. Of the highest quality, refined, exquisite; also, of very great degree, excessive, extreme, intense (cf. threefold, treble, triple). ? Obs.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 407 Taffata phrases, silken tearmes precise, Three-pil'd Hyperboles. a1616Beaum. & Fl. Scornf. Lady iii. i, You, tender sir, whose gentle blood..makes you snuff at all But three-piled people. 1690Dryden Don Sebastian iii. ii, She has made my pious father a three-piled cuckold.
▪ II. ˈthree-piled, a.2
[See piled ppl. a.2]
Consisting of three things piled one upon another; also fig. threefold.
1656J. Harrington Oceana (1700) 59 As under Herod, Pilat, and Tiberius, a threepil'd Tyranny. 1661Cowley Disc. Cromwell Wks. 1710 II. 637 The Son of Earth,..Upon his three-pil'd Mountain stands, 'Till Thunder strikes him. 1908Daily Chron. 21 Nov. 9/5 The work under the mark of the three piled arms of the B.S.A. Co. |