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Pile (attribute)


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  • n. May be a borrowing from the Latin "pilus" or from the French "pil" "peil". In Middle English it had the forms "pilus" "pyle" "pyill" among others. It refers to those supplementary threads that are projected from the ground fabric, that is, the raised surface or nap formed by weaving a secondary warp in loops which are either cut or left intact.

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