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doublet

UK/ˈdʌblət/US/ˈdʌblət/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,144 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: doublets

A doublet is a close-fitting jacket worn by men in past centuries. A padded doublet, doublet and hose, a velvet doublet.

Doublet and hose is the standing phrase for the whole outfit, and it is what every Shakespeare production has to solve. In linguistics a doublet is a pair of words from one source arriving by different roads.

Giovanni Battista Moroni · Public domain

Definitions of doublet

  1. 1noundoubletA close-fitting jacket worn by men in past centuries.C2

    “The actor playing Hamlet wore a black velvet doublet and tights.”

doublet is a garment.

Where it comes from

Italian giubbetta comes from giubba, a garment, from an Arabic word for a long robe.

  1. Arabic

    جبة — to en-wrap

  2. Italian

    giubbetta

  3. English, today

    doublet

+ (clothing) From Italian giubbetta, from giubba, from Arabic جبة (“to en-wrap”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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doublet in the wild

  • German gothic armour arming doublets were generally shorter than Italian white armour doublets, which could extend to the upper thigh.

    Gambeson

  • Men who were not knights wore arming doublets, probably because the garment suggested status and chivalry.

    Gambeson

  • A doublet (; derived from Italian: giubbetta) is a kind of snug-fitting jacket that is shaped and fitted to a man's body.

    Doublet (clothing)

  • Women started wearing doublets in the 16th century.

    Doublet (clothing)

  • Near the Sumani segment, earthquake doublets occurred repeatedly.

    1943 Alahan Panjang earthquakes

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.