doublet

Example Sentences

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"There were these big, thick, sandy doublet events where it had a fine-grained element, and on top of it was a very coarse grained sandy unit. And we were just scratching our heads," says Goldfinger.

From Science Daily • Oct. 22, 2025

It’s nearly Halloween, so two girls are dressed as a witch and a red-headed fairy; there’s also a thirtysomething man in a puffy Tudor hat, doublet, and hose.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2025

He wears a fashionable doublet, breeches, stockings, chunky strapped shoes and a tall felt hat with a buckle in the hatband.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

And the prince, well, with his tights and slashed-sleeved doublet, he looks as if he stepped out of a 16th-century retelling of “Cinderella.”

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2021

Into the half I could see stepped a man with a large white splotch on one shoulder of his dark brown doublet.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood