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pily en · ADJ

Etymology

From pile + -y.

Meanings

1. Like pile or wool.
   • the thick, fine, short undercoat, or pily fur 1903, Charles Henry Lane, Rabbits, Cats and Cavies:
2. Marked by many narrow piles (wedges).
   • Milles very improperly uses the term for per pale indented throughout, or barry pily. 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 48:
   • (A) A chief pily. (B) Similar, but made to form a bordure with 2 teeth in chief. (C) 3 piles - - - (partly underground). (D) Argent 3 piles checky and on a chief checky 3 annulets or. (E) On a chief pily 3 annulets. 1914, Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings, page 69:
   • Barry pily of eight or and gu. 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 54:
   • bend pily, chief pily

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