peascod

plural peascods · alternative peasecod · alternative peacod

1. archaicThe legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
2. historicalA padded doublet fashionable in 16th century Europe.

   [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.

   2015, Matthew Champion, Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England’s Churches, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 19