Quilled
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Quilled is an adjective meaning Having quills or similar structures.
Meaning
Having quills or similar structures.
More Meanings
- (of a flower) Having long, narrow petals or florets.
- Created through the process of quilling.
- (of fabric) Having small, rounded folds.
- Decorated with quillwork.
- simple past and past participle of quill
Example Sentences
Round the throat is a ruff of white muslin, quilled in large reverse plaids; […]
A quilled lionfish was face to face with a saurian moray eel, sizing it up before swimming on.
He leaned down to inspect a white-quilled cactus, and then spotted a different kind with skinnier branches and only a few drab spines.
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;
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pinion, calamus, shaft, quilly, quaillike, plumed.
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