C17: from Old English pylce a garment made of skin and fur, from Late Latin pellicia, from Latin pellis fur
pilch in American English
(pɪltʃ)
noun
an infant's wrapper worn over a diaper
Word origin
[bef. 1000; ME pilche a kind of outer garment, OE pylece ‹ ML pellicia a furred garment, L pellicea, fem. of pelliceus of skins, hides, deriv. of pellis a skin]