paltock

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UK/ˈpaltɒk/

noun

A type of short doublet or tunic with sleeves, sometimes worn beneath armour.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounpaltock (plural paltocks)

plural paltocks · alternative paltok

  1. historicalA type of short doublet or tunic with sleeves, sometimes worn beneath armour.
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    1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishpaltok
  2. Englishpaltock

Middle English paltok, of uncertain origin; perhaps a contraction of earlier *paletok, from pal (“pall”) + -et + -ok. Compare paletot, pelt (“animal hide”).

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APA

paltock. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paltock

MLA

“paltock.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paltock. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “paltock,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paltock.

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