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PREFERRED TERM
Pile (attribute)  
DEFINITION
  • 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.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre  International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Poil

French

pelo (attributo)

Italian

Pelo (atributo)

Spanish

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