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English
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps from pall + -ock, though the T is unexplained. Compare paletot.
Pronunciation
Noun
paltock (plural paltocks)
- (historical) A type of short doublet or tunic with sleeves, sometimes worn beneath armour.
- 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
- 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 round the King.
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