Citations:quilled

English citations of quilled

Adjective: "having quills or similar structures"

		1594					2010 2011
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• 1594 — William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene I:

  In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade

  Oppose himself against a troop of kerns,

  And fought so long till that his thighs with darts

  Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine;

• 2010 — T. Lloyd Winetsky, Maria Juana's Gift: A Novel, Sunstone Press (2010), →ISBN, page 148:

  He leaned down to inspect a white-quilled cactus, and then spotted a different kind with skinnier branches and only a few drab spines.

• 2011 — Alesa Corrin, Jonathan: The Griffin Prince, AuthorHouse (2011), →ISBN, page 234:

  A quilled lionfish was face to face with a saurian moray eel, sizing it up before swimming on.

Adjective: "(of a flower) having long, narrow petals"

					1889
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• 1889 — William Robinson, The English Flower Garden: Style, Position, And Arrangement, John Murray (1899), page 291:

  In the wild state the flowers are single—that is to say, only the outer florets are strap-shaped, and usually of a rosy-lilac tint, with yellowish disc florets; but under cultivation, all the florets have become ligulate or quilled […]

Adjective: "(of fabric) having small, rounded folds

					1844	1909
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• 1844 — Louisa Stuart Costello, Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen, Volume 1, R. Bentley (1844), page 169:

  Round the throat is a ruff of white muslin, quilled in large reverse plaids; […]

• 1909 — Henry C. Shelley, Inns and Taverns of Old London, L.C. Page and Company (1909):

  He insensibly began to alter his appearance; his cravat seemed quilled into a ruff, and his breeches swelled out into a farlingale. I now fancied him changing sexes; and as my eyes began to close in slumber, I imagined my fat landlord actually converted into as fat a landlady.