Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of doublet or cloak with sleeves, in use in England from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A kind of doublet; a jacket.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun now historical A type of short
doublet ortunic with sleeves, sometimes worn beneath armour.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He dressed in the fashion, and spent seven shillings for a short cloak or paltock, shoes, and a pair of red and black breeches.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with cote-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, courtpie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with cote-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, courtpie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with cote-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, courtpie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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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 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with côte-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, courtpie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.
The White Company 1890
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"Why spoil my velvet paltock as many a hot-headed fool would have done.
Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906
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"Why spoil my velvet paltock as many a hot-headed fool would have done.
Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
jinglebelljosie commented on the word paltock
a medieval jacket warn by pages. Short, fitted doublet to which the stockings are buttoned or laced.
October 15, 2008