peascod
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English pesecod; equivalent to pease + cod.
Noun
[edit]peascod (plural peascods)
- (archaic) The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
- (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.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “peascod”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Peascod doublet on Britannica [1]