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doublet

UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈdʌblɪt/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ˈdʌblɪt/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(dub′lit)

dou•blet /ˈdʌblɪt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]

Clothinga close-fitting jacket once worn by men.

dou•blet (dub′lit),USA pronunciation n.

Clothinga close-fitting outer garment, with or without sleeves and sometimes having a short skirt, worn by men in the Renaissance.
Heraldryan undergarment, quilted and reinforced with mail, worn beneath armor.
a pair of like things;
couple.
one of a pair of like things;
duplicate.
Linguisticsone of two or more words in a language that are derived from the same source, esp. 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.
Printingan unintentional repetition in printed matter or proof.
Games doublets, a throw of a pair of dice in which the same number of spots turns up on each die.
Jewelrya counterfeit gem made of two pieces, either of smaller gemstones, inferior stones, or glass. Cf. imitation doublet, triplet (def. 6).
Opticsa compound lens made of two thin lenses shaped so as to reduce chromatic and spherical aberrations.

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

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doublet /ˈdʌblɪt/ n

(formerly) a man's close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves (esp in the phrase doublet and hose)
- a pair of similar things, esp two words deriving ultimately from the same source, for example reason and ratio or fragile and frail
- one of such a pair
a false gem made by welding a thin layer of a gemstone onto a coloured glass base or by fusing two small stones together to make a larger one
- a multiplet that has two members
- a closely spaced pair of related spectral lines
(plural) two dice each showing the same number of spots on one throw
two simple lenses designed to be used together, the optical distortion in one being balanced by that in the other

Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French, from double

'doublet' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

hose - singlet - tights - triplet - acey-deucy - -aire - aren't - assembled - Basque - costume - crotchet - doublet pattern - imitation doublet - kevel - -ous - overture - peasecod - pour point - prison - raid - waistcoat - watch - supplicant

Synonyms: duplicate, couple, two, pair, duo, more...

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