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pilage|ˈpaɪlɪdʒ| Also 9 pileage. [f. pile n.5 1 + -age.] The hair, wool, or especially fur, with which an animal is covered; = pelage.
a1825tr. Bacon's De Calore et Frigore in Wks. (1825) I. 334 Cold maketh the pilage of beasts more thick and long. 1867A. L. Adams Wand. Nat. India 214 In winter..the fur becomes dense from the woolly pileage, which gives a lighter color to the coat than during midsummer and autumn, when..the fur is short and brown. Ibid. 234 During Winter the ibex is thickly clad with hair and woolly pileage. |