How to Use doublet in a Sentence

doublet

noun

• The image is rather appealing: fool’s cap and bells, the Elizabethan doublet, the shrewd old eyes darting about, the voice cackling puns and rhymes, barbs and shafts.
  — Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
• Now there are festivals festooned with doublets and hose all around the nation all summer long.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2019
• Shakespeare himself is the villain, a rockstar in a tight, shiny doublet with a spiky metal collar.
  — Christine Pivovar, kansascity, 26 July 2017
• There, overwintering young males from eastern Canada could learn the catchy song with the doublet ending.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2020
• In 2004, the data shows that about half of the white-throated sparrows in Alberta, the province just east of British Columbia, had picked up the doublet-ending song.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2020
• All those plumed headpieces and richly textured gowns, those snug doublets flared at the waist, could have come straight out of the Sun King’s courtly entertainments.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• By 2015, every sparrow west of central Ontario was singing the doublet ending.
  — Corryn Wetzel, National Geographic, 2 July 2020
• The tiny pendants on Tea Flower’s tutu and the gorgeous chocolate doublet, hose, boots and cloak of Cocoa’s attire are among the my favorite marvels here.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
• Hiddleston sports a lot of it — from some body-hugging breeches to an assortment of doublets with v-necks deep enough to leave room for someone to draw a map of England on his chest.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• Layered underneath is a jerkin, a close-fitting jacket, with a red horizontal brocade and doublet.
  — Liesl Bradner, latimes.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• Even royalty recycled their clothes, either giving them away or turning their old doublets and dresses into things like cushion covers, Lynn tells Rayner.
  — Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
• Among the artifacts missed by the early-1900s digs is a wooden doublet button covered with silver thread — a good indicator of the owner’s high status, says senior archaeologist Mary Anna Hartley, who is leading the excavation team.
  — Mark St. John Erickson, latimes.com, 20 May 2017

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