DOUBLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doublet mean? 

• DOUBLET (noun)
  The noun DOUBLET has 1 sense:

1. a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance

  Familiarity information: DOUBLET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOUBLET (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 

The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with cote-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, court-pie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These boots, an old foil, and a slashed doublet once used by an artist for some picture, were Jo's chief treasures and appeared on all occasions.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It consists of a specialized arrangement of 9 doublet microtubules in a ring with or without a core of 2 microtubules and is enclosed in a plasma membrane coat.

(Cilium, NCI Thesaurus)

A complete cylindrical microtubule that is part of a microtubule doublet in cilia.

(A-Microtubule, NCI Thesaurus)

An incomplete or c-shaped microtubule that is part of a microtubule doublet in cilia.

(B-Microtubule, NCI Thesaurus)

After some time the young queen heard her husband say in his dreams at night: “Boy, make me the doublet, and patch the pantaloons, or else I will rap the yard-measure over your ears.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There were milkmaids and shepherdesses, with brightly colored bodices and golden spots all over their gowns; and princesses with most gorgeous frocks of silver and gold and purple; and shepherds dressed in knee breeches with pink and yellow and blue stripes down them, and golden buckles on their shoes; and princes with jeweled crowns upon their heads, wearing ermine robes and satin doublets; and funny clowns in ruffled gowns, with round red spots upon their cheeks and tall, pointed caps. And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to their clothes, and were so small that the tallest of them was no higher than Dorothy's knee.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Alleyne sat down willingly as directed with two great bundles on either side of him which contained the strollers' dresses—doublets of flame-colored silk and girdles of leather, spangled with brass and tin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The little tailor, who was only pretending to be asleep, began to cry out in a clear voice: Boy, make me the doublet and patch me the pantaloons, or I will rap the yard-measure over your ears.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

That is he in the rose-colored doublet with the ermine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)