Definitions for doublet

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doublet dou·blet

Spelling: [duhb-lit]

IPA: /ˈdʌb lɪt/

Doublet is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 181 anagrams from letters in doublet (bdelotu).

Definitions for doublet

noun

1. a close-fitting outer garment, with or without sleeves and sometimes having a short skirt, worn by men in the Renaissance.
2. an undergarment, quilted and reinforced with mail, worn beneath armor.
3. a pair of like things; couple.
4. one of a pair of like things; duplicate.
5. Linguistics. one of two or more words in a language that are derived from the same source, especially when one is learned while the other is popular, as coy and quiet, both taken from the same Latin word, quiet directly, and coy by way of Old French.
6. Printing. an unintentional repetition in printed matter or proof.
7. doublets, a throw of a pair of dice in which the same number of spots turns up on each die.
8. Jewelry. a counterfeit gem made of two pieces, either of smaller gemstones, inferior stones, or glass. Compare imitation doublet, triplet (def 6).
9. Optics. a compound lens made of two thin lenses shaped so as to reduce chromatic and spherical aberrations.

Origin of doublet

1300-50; Middle English Middle French. See double, -et

Examples for doublet

But every man wore a shirt of mail under his doublet or jerkin.

Ayllon had the necklace with him in the slack of his doublet.

He stretched out a mighty paw, and took me by the collar of my doublet.

He was stripped of doublet, and his hands were tied behind him.

With my own hands I effected in my doublet the slight repair of which it stood in need.

I heard him retorting, as he assisted me to doff my doublet.

He took the huddled inmate by the collar of his doublet, and lugged him out into the open.

Cesare folded the letter and slipped it into the breast of his doublet.

He took his prisoner by the breast of his doublet and shook him.

Then he thrust his own right hand with its pistol back into the breast of his doublet.