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The flannel napkin of an infant; a buff or leather jerkin. (Anglo-Saxon pylce, a pilch.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.