Read full poem →Step. O ! Brainworm, did’st thou not see a fellow
here, in a what sha’ call doublet? He brought mine
uncle a letter e’en now.
Dictionary Entry
A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. doubletdoublet velvetdoublet satin
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Poetry examples for “doublet”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →He wears a hat now of the flat-crown block,[498]
The treble ruff,[499] long coat, and doublet French:
He takes tobacco, and doth wear a lock,[500]
Read full poem →And hies for shelter from his naked toil;
Buttoning his doublet closer to his chin,
He bends and scampers oer the elting soil,
Read full poem →Will she love me the less that my Father is seen
Each Martinmas day in a doublet green?
Read full poem →for two causes, one to save his arme from the strype of the
stryngc, and his doublet from wearynge, and the other is,
that the strynge glydynge sharpelye and quicklye of the
Read full poem →Then to George Wharton James did say,
"I dinna like your doublet, George,
"It stands sae weel on you this day.