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nounpilement (plural pilements)
plural pilements
- obsoleteAn accumulation; a heap.
What! had he nought whereby he might be known, / But costly pilements of some curious stone?
1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC
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