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paltocks

paltocks is the plural of paltock.

Meaning of paltock

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

Questions about paltocks

What is paltocks the plural of?
Paltocks is the plural of paltock.

Words near paltocks in the dictionary

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

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