Middle English Dictionary Entry
jaket n.
Entry Info
| Forms | jaket n. Also jaquette. |
| Etymology | Dim. of OF jaque; cp. late 15th-cent. F jaquette. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A short garment for men, a jacket; also, a form of body armor.
Associated quotations
- (1451) Lin.DDoc.58/19 : To Iohn hennoure, my furred iaket and my blak hode.
- (1454) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.146 : [A] jaket [of] maile, 20 s.
- (1462) Acc.Howard in RC 57149 : Item, payd ffor lynynge to the sayd jaket, xij d.
- (1471) Paston5.103 : Item, that Mastress Broom send me hedyr..a jaket of plonket chamlett.
- (1473) Will York in Sur.Soc.45205 : I gyfe..to my iij sonys iij jakettes of male.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)665 : Hys syde gown may be solde, He may haue a jakett þer-of, & mony tolde.
- a1500(a1470) Brut-1461(1) (Add 10099)525/30 : Þerle of Warwick come to London..with vjc men in rede Iaquettes.