The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paltock
Paltock \Pal"tock\, n. [See Paletot.]
A kind of doublet; a jacket. [Obs.]
--Piers Plowman.
Wiktionary
paltock
n. (context now historical English) A type of short doublet or tunic with sleeves, sometimes worn beneath armour.
Usage examples of "paltock".
I left him, and when I turned at the corner of Paltock I saw him looking after me.
The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with cote-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, court-pie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.
By my hilt I believe that the men of England are all in France already, and that what is left behind are in sooth the women dressed up in their paltocks and hosen.