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peacod

peacod is the alternative form of peascod.

Meaning of peascod

Noun

peascod (plural peascods)

  1. (archaic) The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
  2. (historical) A padded doublet fashionable in 16th century Europe.
    • [A] Tudor figure, whose clothing contains enough accurate details – from the peascod style doublet with its row of tiny buttons to the voluptuous panes of the trunk hose – to clearly date it to the 1570s or 1580s.2015, Matthew Champion, Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England’s Churches, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 19

Forms of peacod

pluralpeacods

Questions about peacod

What is peacod the alternative form of?
Peacod is the alternative form of peascod.

Words near peacod in the dictionary

  1. peacocklike
  2. peacockly
  3. peacocks
  4. peacockwise
  5. peacocky
  6. peacod
  7. peacods
  8. peacotum
  9. peacotums
  10. PEAD
  11. Peaden

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