doublet

• doubtlet (archaic)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌblət/

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From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et.

doublet (plural doublets)

1. A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
3. (linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English). See also Appendix:Glossary#doublet.
4. (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
5. (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
6. (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
7. (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
8. (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
9. (botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
10. A word ladder puzzle.
11. An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
    • 1855, Hermann Schacht, Frederick Currey, The Microscope:

      The doublet generally used is that invented by Dr. Wollaston, and consists of two plano-convex lenses placed with their convex sides towards the eye […]

12. Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.

    to throw doublets

13. (uncountable, obsolete) A game somewhat like backgammon.
14. (radio) Dipole antenna.
15. (historical) A man’s waistcoat.
    • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], lines 726-27:

      I must comfort the weaker vessel, as
      doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat […]

    • 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC, lines 316-19, 327-30:

      Expression is the dress of thought, and still
      Appears more decent, as more suitable;
      A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,
      Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd:
      […]
      These sparks with awkward vanity display
      What the fine gentleman wore yesterday;
      And but so mimic ancient wits at best,
      As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest.

• (pair of two similar things): duet, dyad; see also Thesaurus:duo

• homolog
• pair
• twin
• twinling

From Italian giubbetta, from giubba, from Arabic جبة (“to en-wrap”).

doublet (plural doublets)

1. A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 75:

     Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced […]

   • 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:

     He was a stout old gentleman, with a weather-beaten countenance; he wore a laced doublet, broad belt and hanger, high-crowned hat and feather, red stockings, and high-heeled shoes, with roses in them.

• doublet in Hensleigh Wedgwood, On False Etymologies, Transactions of the Philological Society,1855
• “doublet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “doublet”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Category:English doublets

• bled out, boulted, outbled

From double +‎ -et.

• IPA^(key): /du.blɛ/

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doublet m (plural doublets)

1. (lexicography) doublet
2. (die with the same rolled value as another)

• “doublet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et.

doublet (plural doublets)

1. doublet (A man’s waistcoat)
2. doublet (An imitation gem)

• English: doublet

• “dǒublet, n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.