three-piledadj.1
/ˈθriːpʌɪld/ 1. = three-pile adj. Also transferred of grass, Growing thickly with a soft surface like velvet.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > herb or herbaceous plant > [adjective] > full of or abounding in herbaceous plants > of or relating to grass > rough, tufty, thick, etc.
speary1577
three-piled1605
spiny1607
lanka1644
tussocky1805
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from silk > [adjective] > velvet > with specific type of pile
three-piled1605
three-pile1607
two-pile1611
two-piled1680
1605 London Prodigall i. i. 140 Sixe peeces of vellet…a peece of Ash~colour, a three pilde blacke [etc.].
1610 R. Davies Chesters Triumph sig. B4 Our verdant Pastures three pil'd greene in graine.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 32 Thou art good veluet; thou'rt a three pild-peece I warrant thee. View more context for this quotation
a1861 E. B. Browning Nature's Remorses ii On three-piled carpet of compliments.
2. figurative. Of the highest quality, refined, exquisite; also, of very great degree, excessive, extreme, intense (cf. threefold adj., treble adj., triple adj.). ? Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > very great or extreme
strangec1380
overpassinga1382
passinga1387
most?c1430
extremec1460
horriblea1464
violenta1500
mainc1540
immortal?c1550
exquisite1552
sore1555
three-piled1598
thundering1618
devilish1639
shrewda1643
deadly1660
woundy1681
vast1696
monstrous1711
mortal1716
terrific1743
hell-fired1754
hellish1764
colossal1794
severe1805
awful1818
all-fired1829
terrible1829
quare and1847
ferocious1877
pluperfect1889
raging1889
giddy1896
utter1898
stiff1905
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 407 Taffata phrases, silken tearmes precise, Three pilde Hiberboles.
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie iii. sig. E3 You, tender Sir, whose gentle bloud..makes you snuffe at all But three pil'd people.
1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian iii. ii. 66 She has made my pious Father a three-pil'd Cuckold.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
three-piledadj.2
Consisting of three things piled one upon another; also figurative threefold.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > collecting into one mass or body > accumulated > stacked > consisting of three things stacked
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1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 28 As under Herod, Pilate, and Tiberius, a three pil'd Tyranny.
1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 22 The Son of Earth..Upon his three-pil'd Mountain stands, Till Thunder strikes him.
1908 Daily Chron. 21 Nov. 9/5 The work under the mark of the three piled arms of the B.S.A. Co.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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