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quilled

quilled

7.8
Decorated with small rolled strips of paper or cloth in patterns
  • adjective
  • /kwɪld/
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  • The artist created a quilled design using colorful strips of paper for the exhibition.

Examples

  • The invitation featured a delicate quilled border that made it look elegant and unique.

  • She wore a dress with a beautifully quilled collar that caught everyone's attention.

  • Look at that quilled artwork on the wall!

  • That dress is so quilled and unique!

  • The artist created a quilled design using colorful strips of paper for the exhibition.

  • The invitation featured a delicate quilled border that made it look elegant and unique.

  • She wore a dress with a beautifully quilled collar that caught everyone's attention.

How Ornate

elaborate
179 4.9
quilled
7.8
decorated
2.7
simple
220 1.0
unadorned
6 5.1

Surface Forms

quilled positive

Morphology

quilled = quill (semi-transparent) = quill + ed

Morphologically regular (quill + -ed) but the craft-specific sense (paper quilling) is specialized and may be unfamiliar to many learners.

Etymology

Quilled comes from the craft name quilling, which was named because artists rolled thin strips of paper around a bird quill (a 'feather') to make small curled shapes. That's why quilled means 'decorated with curled or rolled strips', like a quilled paper design or a quilled collar.