ppl. a. [f. QUILT v.1 + -ED1.]
1. Of cloth, a garment, etc.: Padded with some soft substance held in position by being sewn as in a quilt; composed of several layers sewn together.
1533. Elyot, Cast. Helthe (1541), 79. I dyd throwe away my quylted cappe, and my other close bonettes.
1594. Nashe, Unfort. Trav., 20. A round twilted Taylors cushion, for a target.
1682. Lond. Gaz., No. 1739/4. A quilted Petticoat of Lead-colour’d Sattin.
1768. Sterne, Sent. Journ. (1778), II. 97. (Temptation), Lined with a little bit of white quilted sattin.
1865. Livingstone, Zambesi, xx. 405. A present of a quilted coverlet.
† b. ? Stuffed. Obs. rare–1.
1668. Pepys, Diary, 26 Sept. I had two quilted pigeons, very handsome and good meat.
2. Pieced or joined together, as in a quilt. † Also transf. of a person.
1617. Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. ix. 371. So cult you are, or so quilted in your tearmes.
1624. Quarles, Div. Poems, Samson (1717), 331. The quilted Quarters of the Earth’s great Ball.
1877. Longf., Keramos, 11. O’er his features, like a mask, The quilted sunshine and leaf-shade Moved.
1885. Pall Mall Gaz., 1 Jan., 2/1. That is a modest programme of quilted shreds and patches.
3. Covered with, or as with, a quilt or quilted garments. Quilted grape: (see quot.).
1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr., I. ii. All manner of quilted trumpeters. Ibid. (1845), Cromwell, Introd. (1861), I. 78. Lord Clarendon … speaks always in official language; a clothed, nay sometimes even quilted dialect.
1876. Voyle & Stevenson, Milit. Dict., 321/1. Quilted Grape, the old pattern grape shot … quilted with canvas, and tied so as to appear … something like a bunch of grapes.
4. Tossed in a quilt.
1881. Duffield, Don Quixote, I. 210. The cries which the hapless quilted one gave forth.
Hence † Quiltedly adv. Obs. rare–0.
1659. Torriano, Borrevolménte, stuffingly, gulchingly, quiltedly.
