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doublet

Meaninglined garment

Common meaning: close-fitting jacket worn in earlier centuries

Journey through time

  1. Old Frenchdouble‘lined garment’source
  2. Frenchmeaning shiftslined garment → doubledouble‘double’source
  3. Middle Englishmeaning shiftsdouble → garmentdobbelet‘garment’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsgarment → close-fitting jacket worn in earlier centuriesdoublet‘close-fitting jacket worn in earlier centuries’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old French double ‘lined garment’.

Roots

  • double Old French “lined garment”

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