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Paltock

Paltock \Pal"tock\, n. [See Paletot.] A kind of doublet; a jacket. [Obs.]
--Piers Plowman.

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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.