poil

American  

[poil] / pɔɪl /

noun

1. a yarn or thread made from silk, used for ribbon, velvet, and as the core of gold, silver, and tinsel yarn.

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Etymology

Origin of poil

< French < Latin pilus hair

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Example Sentences

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poil

“Ay, but she’ll mak’ my ploot poil pefore she’s tone,” cried Watty fiercely, and scattering a handful of feathers so that some of them and the down flew on to Steve.

From Steve Young by George Manville Fenn

Exempted from the city rates, they paid a special poil tax, and they contributed, but on the same footing as Christian vassals, to extraordinary rates, war taxes, and travelling expenses of the nobles, &c.

From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Li cuens Raynauz en monta lo degre, Gros par espaules, greles par lo baudre; Blonde ot lo poil, menu, recercele: En nule terre n'ot so biau bacheler.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

These animals have the hair, or poil, of a reddish brown, and strong fore-paws, armed with long claws which serve them to dig out their holes under the earth.

From Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Gabriel Franchere

Indiwidoolism is a poil without price; and the natal mansion, gentlemen—if I may be permitted the simulcritude—is its oyster.

From The Danger Mark by A. B. Wenzell

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