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Definition of Twilled
1. Adjective. Of textiles; having parallel raised lines.
Definition of Twilled
1. Verb. (past of twill) ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of fabric) having diagonal parallel ribs ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twilled
1. twill [v] - See also: twill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twilled
Literary usage of Twilled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"B. twilled. In twilled weaving each weft passes over or under more than one crossing
... twilled twos. a. Each weft passes alternately over and under two ..."
2. Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona by Alfred Vincent Kidder, Samuel James Guernsey (1919)
"BASKETRY twilled BASKETRY We do not know whether twilled ware, in the form of
the yucca ring basket so common in the cliff-dwellings, was or was not ..."
3. Indian Village Site and Cemetery Near Madisonville, Ohio by Earnest Albert Hooton, Charles Clark Willoughby (1920)
"twilled Basketry. The only specimen in this weave is a flexible bag-like basket
of yucca leaves with flattened spherical body and small mouth. ..."
4. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"twilled cloth might equally be described as reeded cloth—cloth channelled or ...
twilled is, therefore, the very word to describe the crowded sedges in the ..."
5. The Tempest by William Shakespeare (2001)
"The other obscure and disputed word ' twilled ' may be disposed of more rapidly.
... twilled cloth might equally be described as reeded cloth, ..."
6. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"... Hampton Court ; tempera on twilled linen ; 9 pictures, each 9 ft. sq. ; not
properly cartoons, but intended to be stretched on frames and affixed to the ..."
7. A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the by George Richardson Porter (1831)
"J. B represents, also in section, a piece of twilled cloth, where the waved line
or shoot is seen to ... It must not be understood, that in weaving twilled ..."
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