doublet
双层的,双层,双倍的,双层楼
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- : a close-fitting outer garment, with or without sleeves and sometimes having a short skirt, worn by men in the Renaissance.
- : an undergarment, quilted and reinforced with mail, worn beneath armor.
- : a pair of like things; couple.
- : one of a pair of like things; duplicate.
- : Linguistics. one of two or more words in a language that are derived from the same source, especially when one is learned while the other is popular, as coy and quiet, both taken from the same Latin word, quiet directly, and coy by way of Old French.
- : Printing. an unintentional repetition in printed matter or proof.
- : doublets, a throw of a pair of dice in which the same number of spots turns up on each die.
- : Jewelry. a counterfeit gem made of two pieces, either of smaller gemstones, inferior stones, or glass.Compare imitation doublet, triplet.
- : Optics. a compound lens made of two thin lenses shaped so as to reduce chromatic and spherical aberrations.
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Examples
A “proto-eukaryote” that had histone doublets might have been ancestral to both the giant viruses and eukaryotes and could have passed the proteins along to both lines of organisms a very long time ago.
The sleeves of his doublet which protruded from his leather casing were of the same colour and material as his trunks.
He was cast down to think that he might have spared himself the trouble of donning his beautiful yellow doublet from Paris.
Over his green doublet he wore a sad-coloured nightgown, out of the pocket of which peeped his hunting-horn.
The body was also swathed in cotton or a doublet of leather, over which iron armour was worn.
The playgoer no longer demands whatever of primal passion is presented to him to be dressed in doublet and hose.