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• 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).
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , 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 Lewis ; and sold by W Taylor , T Osborn , and J 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

• Montrose doublet
• Wollaston's doublet

• homolog
• pair
• twin
• twinling

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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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , 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.
• “doublet”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• bled out, boulted, outbled

From double +‎ -et.

• IPA^(key): /du.blɛ/

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doublet m (plural doublets)

1. (lexicography) doublet

• “doublet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 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.