doublets
Close-fitting Renaissance jackets
Doublets are pairs of words in a language that derive from the same source but arrived by different routes, developing distinct meanings or forms.
English has many: *shirt* and *skirt* both come from the same Germanic root, as do *ward* and *guard*.
Separately, doublets is a word game where players transform one word into another by changing one letter at a time, each step producing a valid word.
Sleeveless fitted jacket
- vestSleeveless upper-body garment
- waistcoatSleeveless torso garment
- bodiceFitted upper garment
- giletSleeveless padded garment
tunic · paned · slashed · padded · fitted · tailored · Renaissance · Elizabethan
jerkin
Sleeveless fitted jacket
gilet · tunic · paned · slashed · padded · fitted · tailored · Renaissance · Elizabethan · Tudor
duo
Two working together
pairing · brace · tandem · duet · match · couplet · twain · yoke · binary · duality
cognates
Words from common origin
French · Germanic · derivation · loanwords
- vocabularyword, words, new words, term, terms
- costumeswitch, costume, vampire, pirate, ghost costume
- linguistic termsacronym, anagram, antonym, synonym, homonym
- 1500sElizabeth I, Shakespeare, Spanish Armada, Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther
- Early Modern EnglandLondon, Shakespeare, Globe Theatre, Queen Elizabeth, Cromwell
- loanwordsloanword, loan words, borrowings, borrowed words, loan word
doubletsthree-piece suits
Coordinated jacket-vest-trouser combinations
full armor · robes · cloaks · bare chest · tunics
- double checkVerify a second time
- double standardUnequally applied moral code
- double dateCouples' shared outing
- double takeDelayed reaction of surprise
- double lifeSecret parallel identity
- double clickTwo rapid consecutive presses