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DOUBLET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("doublet" is a kind of...):
jacket (a short coat)
Context examples:
Holy Virgin! see the dust upon thy doublet!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“And yet there is much in what the Gascon says,” said a swarthy fellow in a weather-stained doublet; “and I for one would rather prosper in Italy than starve in Spain.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Of the riders one was young, graceful, and fair, clad in plain doublet and hosen of blue Brussels cloth, which served to show his active and well-knit figure.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“We have had enough bobance and boasting,” said Hordle John, rising and throwing off his doublet.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The other, clad in a dirty russet suit with a long sweeping doublet, had a cunning, foxy face with keen, twinkling eyes and a peaky beard.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here the two combatants drew their swords and threw off their doublets, for neither had any defensive armor.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here is your doublet, Tranter.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For this man was so swollen with pride that he would neither drink with us, nor sit at the same table with us, nor as much as answer a question, but must needs talk to the varlet all the time that it was well there was peace, and that he had slain more Englishmen than there were tags to his doublet.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Alleyne gazed upon the scene—the portly velvet-clad official, the knot of hard-faced archers with their hands to the bridles of their horses, the thief with his arms trussed back and his doublet turned down upon his shoulders.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet I trust that I may be able to reach Brockenhurst to-night, where I may have all that heart can desire; for oh! sir, but my son is a fine man, with a kindly heart of his own, and it is as good as food to me to think that he should have a doublet of Lincoln green to his back and be the King's own paid man.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
