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Three-piled   Listen
adjective
Three-piled  adj.  
1.
Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly. (R.) "Thou art good velvet; thou 'rt three-piled piece."
2.
Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated; high-flown. "Three-piled hyperboles."
3.
Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth. (Obs.) "Three-piled people."





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"Three-piled" Quotes from Famous Books



... by wearing a pied feather, The cable hat-band, or the three-piled ruff, A yard of shoe-tie, or the Switzers knot On his French garters, should affect a humour! O, it ...
— Epicoene - Or, The Silent Woman • Ben Jonson


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