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paltock

UK/ˈpaltɒk/

paltock noun: a type of short doublet or tunic with sleeves, sometimes worn beneath armour.

Noun

paltock (plural paltocks)

  1. (historical) A type of short doublet or tunic with sleeves, sometimes worn beneath armour.
    • The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered...1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel

Forms of paltock

pluralpaltocks
alternative formpaltok

Origin of paltock

Middle English paltok, of uncertain origin; perhaps a contraction of earlier *paletok, from pal (“pall”) + -et + -ok. Compare paletot, pelt (“animal hide”).

Questions about paltock

What does paltock mean?
Paltock means a type of short doublet or tunic with sleeves, sometimes worn beneath armour.
What part of speech is paltock?
Paltock is a noun.
How do you pronounce paltock?
Paltock is pronounced /ˈpaltɒk/ (UK).
What is the plural of paltock?
The plural of paltock is paltocks.

Words near paltock in the dictionary

  1. palters
  2. Palterton
  3. paltik
  4. paltiks
  5. Paltit
  6. paltock
  7. paltocks
  8. paltok
  9. paltrier
  10. paltriest
  11. paltrily

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