unpilled
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unpilled (comparative more unpilled, superlative most unpilled)
- Of textiles: not having developed small matted balls of fiber.
- 1989, Arlene James, Dream of a Lifetime, page 25:
- The jeans were too blue, the khakis too crisp, the flannel shirts too stiff, the sweaters unpilled. The bright red, down-filled jacket he hung up even had the tags still attached, […]
- 2003, G. T. Tsao, Recent Progress in Bioconversion of Lignocellulosics, page 45:
- The cellulase removes the existing pills, and conditions the surface of new or unpilled clothes.