a. Sc. Obs. Also 6 tere pyle. [a. OF. a treis poils three-pile.] Of pattered velvet, etc.: Three-pile; pile upon pile.
1489. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 135. v elne and a half of terpoile veluus for a halff lang gowne to the King.
1501. Douglas, Pal. Hon., 542. Satine figures…, Damesflure, tere pyle, quhairon thair lyis Peirle.
