† miledadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Of cloth: ornamented with stripes near the edge; striped at its edge with a colour. Cf. miling n.1
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1512 in E. Jacob Hist. Faversham (1774) 164 A lyttel olde towell pleyn miled with blewe.
1548 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) A Towell of dyapar myleed wyth blewe.
1566 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. A towell mylded with blewe. One towelle mylded. One towelle mylded with whyt.
1590 in Archaeologia (1866) 40 340 Itm, two mylded napkins.
1672 in F. W. Steer Farm & Cottage Inventories Mid-Essex 1635–1749 (1969) 124 One dozen of Napkins wrought with white, & one dozen of blew milded napkins.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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