† pampilion Obs.
Also 5 pampaylyone, 6 -pelyon, -ion, -pilioun, -ian, -pillion, -eoun, -pyllon, pawmpilyon.
[Origin unknown.
According to quot. 1619 (supported by 1503, 1532) the name of a fur-bearing animal. For sense 2, connexion has been suggested with Pampellone, a town of France near Alby, and Pampeluna in Spain: cf. OF. pampelune ‘étoffe fabriquée à Pampelune’ (Godef.).]
1. A kind of fur used in the 15th and 16th centuries for trimming.
| 1487 in Fairholt Costume (ed. Dillon) Gloss. s.v., Pampaylyones of bozy. 1502 Priv. Purse Exp. Eliz. York (1830) 33 A gowne of cloth of gold furred with pawmpilyon. 1503 Ibid. 189 Two skynnes of pampelyon for the cuffes of the same gowne. 1505 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. III. 43 Item, for xj skinnis of pampilioun to fill furth the lynyng of the samyn [goun]. 1532 Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VIII, For xxv dousin skynns of fyne pawmpelion, lx li. 1619 Middleton Love & Antiq. Wks. (ed. Bullen) VII. 331 Those beasts bearing fur... The ounce,..ginnet, pampilion. |
2. A coarse woollen fabric of rough surface.
| 1567 in Swayne Sarum Church-w. Acc. (1896) 113, ij yerdes of Jene fustyan and ij yerdes of pampyllon to cast y⊇ [organ] pypes vppon, ijs. vjd. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn habillement de Bureau, ou autre drap meslangé de petit pris, dont les serfs & menu peuple souloit estre accoustré, a coate of chaungeable colours for seruauntes, slighte rugge, or pampilion. 1597–8 Bp. Hall Sat. iv. ii. 19 Lolioes side-cote is rough Pampilian Guilded with drops that downe the bosome ran. |