Meaning & use
Pilch
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An outer garment made of skin or fleece, historically worn for warmth, or a waterproof covering once used over a baby's diaper.
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Medieval travelers wore a pilch over their tunics to fend off the cold.
Before modern disposable diapers, mothers used a woolen pilch to keep cloth nappies dry.
A note on using this word
A now-archaic word rooted in Old English pylce, related to 'pelt'; it survives mainly in historical and dialectal usage.
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