peascod

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From Middle English pesecod; equivalent to pease +‎ cod.

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peascod (plural peascods)

  1. (archaic) The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
  2. (historical) A padded doublet fashionable in 16th century Europe.
    • 2015, Matthew Champion, Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England’s Churches, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 19:
      [A] Tudor figure, whose clothing contains enough accurate details – from the peascod style doublet with its row of tiny buttons to the voluptuous panes of the trunk hose – to clearly date it to the 1570s or 1580s.

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