Crossword-Solution: DOUBLET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Doublet | a. | Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple. |
| Doublet | a. | A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time. |
| Doublet | a. | A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century. |
| Doublet | a. | A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone. |
| Doublet | a. | An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct. |
| Doublet | a. | Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets. |
| Doublet | a. | A game somewhat like backgammon. |
| Doublet | a. | One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “DOUBLET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Snug Elizabethan attire | 1 answer |
| Renaissance-era garment | 1 answer |
| Padded jacket | 1 answer |
| Old-time jacket. | 1 answer |
| Old garment worn with hose | 1 answer |
| Man's close-fitting jacket | 1 answer |
| body garment | 2 answers |
| synonym | 2 answers |
| Close-fitting jacket | 3 answers |
| Jerkin | 6 answers |
| CLOSE-fitting body garment | 8 answers |
| dyad | 9 answers |
| Duo | 11 answers |
| CLOSE-fitting garment | 14 answers |
| Couple | 43 answers |
| Substitute | 43 answers |
| Jacket | 54 answers |
| Pair | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DOUBLET (5)
This doublet hung unbuttoned over a close dress of scarlet which sat tight to his body; he had breeches of the same, but they did not reach below the lower part of the thigh, leaving the knee exposed.
His purple mantle, and doublet of green, were embroidered with the brightest threads, and the plume in his cap came always from the wing of the gayest butterfly.
Bessie Alden asked the old man in the crimson doublet a great many questions; she thought it a most fascinating place.
Features by sombrero shaded, Pale and passionless and cold; Doublet richly laced and braided, Trunks of velvet slash'd with gold, Blood-red scarf, and bare Toledo,-- Mask more subtle, and disguise Far less shallow, thou dost need, oh, Traitor, to deceive my eyes.
The large and spacious houses, with their oriel, latticed windows, their huge fireplaces, and their gabled roofs, breathe of the days of hose and doublet, of pearl-embroidered stomachers, and complicated oaths.
Quotes with DOUBLET (3)
Having studied the toxic biological effects of wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation, I find it amazing that women will willfully strap on two radio frequency antennas to their breasts in the form of an underwired bra. The wireless industry knows the underwired bra as a dipole antenna or doublet.
As I regard physics and psychology as complementary types of examination, I am certain that there is an equally valid way that must lead the psychologist 'from behind' (namely, through investigating the archetypes) into the world of physics. As an example of background physics, I shall discuss a motif that occurs regularly in my dreams - namely, fine structure, in particular doublet structure of spectral lines and the separation of a chemical element into two isotopes.
I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the knees), my stand-up collar and billycock hat, and wonder what right I have to go about making God's world hideous. Then wild and wicked thoughts come into my heart. I don't want to be good and respectable. (I never can be sensible, I'm told; so that don't matter.) I want to put on lavender-colored tights, with red velvet breeches and a green doublet slashed with yellow; to have a…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1961–2012).