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quilted, ppl. a.|ˈkwɪltɪd|
[f. quilt v.1 + -ed1.]
1. a. Of cloth, a garment, etc.: Padded with some soft substance held in position by being sewn as in a quilt; composed of several layers sewn together.
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 79, I dyd throwe away my quylted cappe, and my other close bonettes. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 20 A round twilted Taylors cushion, for a target. 1682Lond. Gaz. No. 1739/4 A quilted Petticoat of Lead-colour'd Sattin. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1778) II. 97 (Temptation), Lined with a little bit of white quilted sattin. 1865Livingstone Zambesi xx. 405 A present of a quilted coverlet.
†b. ? Stuffed. Obs. rare—1.
1668Pepys Diary 26 Sept., I had two quilted pigeons, very handsome and good meat.
2. Pieced or joined together, as in a quilt. † Also transf. of a person.
1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. ix. 371 So cult you are, or so quilted in your tearmes. 1624Quarles Div. Poems, Samson (1717) 331 The quilted Quarters of the Earth's great Ball. 1877Longfellow Keramos 11 O'er his features, like a mask, The quilted sunshine and leaf-shade Moved. 1885Pall Mall G. 1 Jan. 2/1 That is a modest programme of quilted shreds and patches. 1925E. Sitwell Troy Park 50 One candle spills out thick gold coins Where quilted dark with tree shade joins. 1968National Observer (U.S.) 3 June 15/1 This quilted personality has regenerated a sorrowful team. 1971A. Sampson New Anat. Brit. xxxi. 561 The English pattern of hedgerows and quilted landscape.
3. Covered with, or as with, a quilt or quilted garments. quilted grape: (see quot.).
1843Carlyle Past & Pr. i. ii, All manner of quilted trumpeters. 1845― Cromwell Introd. (1861) I. 78 Lord Clarendon..speaks always in official language; a clothed, nay sometimes even quilted dialect. 1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 321/1 Quilted Grape, the old pattern grape shot..quilted with canvas, and tied so as to appear..something like a bunch of grapes.
4. Tossed in a quilt.
1881A. J. Duffield Don Quixote I. 210 The cries which the hapless quilted one gave forth.
Hence † ˈquiltedly adv. Obs. rare—0.
1659Torriano, Borrevolménte, stuffingly, gulchingly, quiltedly. |