soft, raised surface upon cloth, mid-14c., downy plumage, from Anglo-French pyle or Middle Dutch pijl, both from Latin pilus a hair (source of Italian pelo, Old French pel). Phonological evidence rules out transmission of the English word via Old French cognate peil, poil. Meaning nap upon cloth is from 1560s.
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