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- adjective Wearing a
doublet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Crimson-doubleted, blue-ribanded, white-trunk-hosed, he stooped to understrap his left knee with that strap of velvet round which sparkles the proud gay motto of the Order.
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914
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Crimson-doubleted, blue-ribanded, white-trunk-hosed, he stooped to understrap his left knee with that strap of velvet round which sparkles the proud gay motto of the Order.
Zuleika Dobson 1911
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The latter volleyed back in the same jargon, and as she did so, Tony's astonished eye detected in her the doubleted page who had handed him the letter in Saint Mark's.
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Endowed by a beruffed and doubleted goldsmith, "Jinglin 'Geordie"
Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902
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The latter volleyed back in the same jargon, and as she did so, Tony's astonished eye detected in her the doubleted page who had handed him the letter in Saint Mark's.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2 Edith Wharton 1899
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The latter volleyed back in the same jargon, and as she did so, Tony's astonished eye detected in her the doubleted page who had handed him the letter in Saint
The Descent of Man and Other Stories Edith Wharton 1899
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So as she stood, doubleted, breeched, and in his long red hose, he hovered round her.
The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892
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For heroes of the genuine cavalleria type, plumed, doubleted, pumpt and magnificent, give me Dumas; for good folks and true, the great American
The Delicious Vice Young Ewing Allison 1892
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If we look over the world's history, since in the latter years of the fifteenth century syphilis came down like a plague, walking with democratic tread through all walks and stations in life, laying out alike royalty or the vagrant, the curled-haired and slashed-doubleted knight, or the tonsured monk, we must conclude that syphilis has caused more families to become extinct than any ordinary plague, black death, or cholera epidemic.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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