pilch

American  

[pilch] / pɪltʃ /

noun

1. an infant's wrapper worn over a diaper.

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pilch British  

/ pɪltʃ /

noun

1. an outer garment, originally one made of skin

2. an infant's outer wrapping, worn over the napkin

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Etymology

Origin of pilch

before 1000; Middle English pilche a kind of outer garment, Old English pylece < Medieval Latin pellicia a furred garment, Latin pellicea, feminine of pelliceus of skins, hides, derivative of pellis a skin

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Example Sentences

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pilch

The pad or pilch is apt to turn round, for it is only one little girl in twenty who sits straight.

From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Nannie Lambert

There has been a vain attempt to make pilcher signify a leathern sheath, because a pilch was a garment of leather or pelt.

From Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

For a young girl I should like to know what is the objection to a pad, or pilch as they are called, made for use on either side.

From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Nannie Lambert

The pannier training was followed by the little girls being placed on a pilch, and conducted about by a mounted groom with a leading-rein.

From The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. by M. Horace (Matthew Horace) Hayes

Coles has 'a pilch for a saddle, instratum,' which explains that it was an external covering, and probably of leather.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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