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Definition of Pilches
1. pilch [n] - See also: pilch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilches
Literary usage of Pilches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"His coates were fit for the weather; His pilch made of swines' leather." The Smith,
in the Cobler of Canterbury, 1608. pilches of otter ..."
2. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors by Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"And the said three pilches were delivered to John de Stokesby, one of the ushers
of the Exchequer, to be carried to Ralph de Stokes, clerk of the King's ..."
3. British Reformers by Bale, John, Coverdale, Miles, John Foxe (1842)
"... they were stoned, hewn asunder, tempted, fell, and were slain upon the edge
of the sword; some wandered to and fro in sheeps' pilches,* in goats' ..."
4. British Reformers by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, Board of Publication (1842)
"... in goats' pilches, forsaken, oppressed, afflicted: such godly men, as the
world was unworthy of, wandering in the wilderness, in mountains, in caves, ..."
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