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1326 Wardr. Acc. Edw. II 26/3 Unus doublet pro corpore Regis.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 571 Dubbed in a dublet of a dere tars.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xiii. 115 They hadd couertly vndre theyr lytel doublettes rasers.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxxv That it was ynough for a woman, to iudge the difference betwene the shurte and the dublet of her husbande.

1627 M. Drayton Moone-calfe in Battaile Agincourt 160 Dublet, and Cloke, with Plush and Veluet linde.

1740 T. Gray Let. 15 Apr. in Corr. (1971) I. 147 We should have taken it for a red satin doublet.

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 133 George Fox..travelled as a missionary..buttoned up in a leathern doublet with sleeves.

1603–4 Const. & Canons Eccl. §74 That in public they go not in their Doublet and Hose, without Coats or Cassocks.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. iv. 6 Doublet and hose ought to show it selfe coragious to petty-coate. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. i. 43 And youthfull still, in your doublet and hose, this raw-rumaticke day? View more context for this quotation

1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 14 One Man can go in Doublet and Hose, when another Man cannot be without a Cloak.

1858 H. W. Longfellow Courtship Miles Standish i. 3 Clad in doublet and hose, and boots of Cordovan leather.

1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 37 A Doubeled of defence couered with red Leþer.

1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 158 Ffusten..ffor to make doblettys off fence.

1485 Will of John Sharnebourne (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/8) f. 249^v Doblette of fence.

1885 H. A. Dillon Fairholt's Costume in Eng. (ed. 3) II. (Gloss.) at Brigandine These jackets have also been called doublets of fence or defence.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 318 We say metaphorically, when any is in Prison, He has a Stone Doublet on.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Iron-doublet, a Prison.

c1720 Lett. from Mist's Jrnl. (1722) I. 227 He that will not pay his Debts when a few good Words will ballance his Accounts with his Creditor, deserves to wear a Stone Doublet all his Life-time.

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 4th Serm. sig. Kvi For as good preachers be worthy double honour: so vnpreaching prelates be worthy double dishonoure: They muste be at theyr dublets.]

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 107 Doublettes, is when we reherse one and thesame worde twise together. Ah wretche, wretche, that I am.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §5. i. 97 Those doublets on the side of his tail seem to add strength to the muscles which move the tail-fins.

1869 Contemp. Rev. 10 160 Doublets, i.e. double and divergent derivations from a common root, as, for example, raison and ration.

1881 W. W. Skeat Etymol. Dict. 175 Thus dole is a doublet of deal.

1885 Athenæum 9 May 594 [In] Hebrew grammar..there is a special dual form to express doublets.

1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc. (new ed.) I. p. xviii Typographic peculiarities have been followed, even to gross faults, like doublets.

1891 F. P. Badham Formation of Gospels 11 I subjoin tables of the doublets in S. Matthew, S. Mark and S. Luke.

1899 J. C. Hawkins Horae Synopticae ii. §iv. 64 The ‘doublets’, or repetitions of the same or closely similar sentences in the same Gospel, are of great value in supplying hints as to the sources and composition of the Gospels.

1906 F. C. Burkitt Gospel Hist. 14 One of the really striking features about the narrative in Genesis..is the number of Doublets, i.e. stories told twice over.

1906 F. C. Burkitt Gospel Hist. 163 At the first glance they are real doublets; i.e. different accounts of the same event drawn from different sources.

1927 A. H. McNeile Introd. N.T. 64 Isolated sayings in Mark which occur in more or less similar forms in two passages... These are often called ‘doublets’.

c1450 Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) II. 56 Nowe will I begyn For to caste..Take heare, I dare laye, Are dublettes, in good faye.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 270 He..seldom fails to throw doublets.

1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 246 Doublets must occasionally turn up if we are always casting the dice.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Renette, a game at Tables of some resemblance with our Doublets, or Queenes Game.

1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxi. sig. E2 At tables he reaches not beyond doublets.

1684 T. Otway Atheist v. 61 Farewell..Seven and Eleven; Sink-Tray, and the Doublets.

1816 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 146 I had eight doublets and bagged both my birds every time.

1837 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 129 Five glorious doublets.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xli. 342 Dr. Wollaston's microscopic doublet..consists of two plano-convex lenses.

1844 A. Gray Lett. (1893) 325 I can..see the pollen-tubes with even my three-line doublet!

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 730/2 Sir John Herschel's doublet consists of a double convex lens..and of a plano-concave lens..It is intended for a simple microscope.

1880 Nature 26 Feb. 411/2 The object glasses..are doublets with a positive lens of quartz and a negative of Iceland spar.

1897 J. R. Rydberg in Astrophysical Jrnl. VI. 235 The constituents of the doublets and triplets of the nebulous series are built up after exact rules,..while the constituents of the sharp series, so far as we know, are simple lines.

1926 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity v. 54 Just like the D-line, the strongest rhodium line also consists of a doublet.

1961 Adv. Spectrosc. II. 228 The structure which is stable at low temperatures shows a doublet in the infra-red..as well as in the Raman spectrum.

1879 ‘L. Carroll’ in Vanity Fair 29 Mar. 185/2 The word ‘head’ may be changed into ‘tail’ by interposing the words ‘heal, teal, tell, tall’. I call the two given words a ‘Doublet’... The easiest ‘Doublets’ are those in which the consonants in one word answer to consonants in the other, and the vowels to vowels.

1945 Notes & Queries 6 Oct. 151/1 In the amusement sections of newspapers it [sc. the game or puzzle called ‘Doublets’] is usually referred to as ‘Word-Ladder’.

1984 T. Augarde Oxf. Guide Word Games xxi. 188 All these examples illustrate one of the constant principles of Doublets: that the words being joined should either be opposites (hate, love) or otherwise connected in some way (seven, eight).