Obs. exc. Hist. Forms: 7 file-, filozella, 8 filosella. Also 7 philizella, philosella. [Corruptly ad. It. filosello, according to Mussafia a perversion (after filo thread) of *folisello:—popular L. *follicellus cocoon (whence OF. faucel), dim. of L. follis bag.] A kind of stuff; = FILOSELLE b.
1611. Cotgr., Filoselle … the stuff Filozella.
1619. Purchas, Microcosmus, xxvii. 268–9. The new deuised names of Stuffes and Colours … Veletato, Philizello, Paragon.
1640. in Entick, London, II. 169. Silk say calimancoes and phillosellas, broad, the dozen yards 0s. 4d.
1678–96. Phillips, Filozella, a kind of Stuff.
