Middle English Dictionary Entry
jakke n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | jakke n.(2) Also jak(e. |
| Etymology | OF jaque |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A stout stuffed or quilted tunic, often serving as a defensive garment; (b) ~ of defence (de defence, of fence, de fence), a jacket specifically designed for protection, with iron plates inside the lining; (c) a short tunic worn by women; (d) a joint, probably a saddle, of mutton.
Associated quotations
a
- (1378) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.418 : [Two] paltockes [of black] satyn, [called] jackes.
- (1380) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.269 : [A] hopeland, 12 d.; 2 doublettes, 3 s. 8 d..[a] jakke, 5 s.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)3689 : Þorȝ-out ys scheld..Plates of iakke & ioupoun, þorȝ-out al it ȝot.
- (1405) in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10)8.384 : Viginti & quatuor Jakkes.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.77 : Some wold armyd be more liȝt In þikke Iackys, curid with satyn.
- (1447) Will York in Sur.Soc.30128 : Thomae fratri meo optimam togam..optimum meum dobletum de velvet..et unum jak.
- (1454) Doc.in Gilbert Cal.Dublin 1283 : No prentise..shulde be admitted unto the fraunches of the saide citte till he have a jake, bowe, shefe.
- (1474) Let.Bk.Lond.L (Gldh LetBk L)121 : Jakkes made with Roten Cloth and paynted clothes of old wollen cloth..deceivably made to the hurt of the Kynges liege people.
- (?1474) Stonor1.147 : Item, v jackus, iij salettes, ij gleyfes, and a borespere.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)138 : Thai shulde not haue wherwith to bie hem bowes, arroes, jakkes, or any oþer armour off defence.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)66a : A Iake: Bombicinium.
- a1500(c1437) Brut-1436 (Lamb 6)582/28 : With side Iakes Doune vnto mydde þe leg of kanuas lyke to sakes.
- a1525(?1449) Cov.Leet Bk.245 : Also that no taylour of this Cite make no jakke but hit be abull & of goode stuffe to kepe the mannes body that shall were hite.
b
- (1375) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.193 : [The plaintiff answered that the defendant had taken away..a] jak de defense.
- (1408) Acc.Cobham in Ant.J.2340 : xx s. de j jakke of defens vendito.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)256 : Iakke of defence, garment: Baltheus.
- (1447) Visit.Alnwick256 : Fieri sibi fecit vnam diploidem anglice a Jak of fense de vestimentis ecclesie ad magnum dampnum ecclesie.
- (1454) Will York in Sur.Soc.30171 : Ad sustentacionem luminum Sanctae Crucis..j jak defence.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)7262 : Ther saw I helmys and haberiouns..And Iakkys stuffyd off diffence.
- ?a1475 PParv.(Win)237 : Iak of fence, garment: Baltheus.
- a1500 Treat.GBattle (Hrl 1706)425 : Ye muste haue the Iakke off fence that ys Charyte: ffor..the Iakke thorough the nesshenes and softenes that ys in hitt, feynteth ande wasteth alle the dyntes off thy enemyes.
c
- a1400 Bk.Mother (Eg 826)41 : With her hornes, lockis, garlondis of gold..colers, lacis, jackes.
d
- (1466) Acc.Howard in RC 57435 : In a brest and a jakke of moton..in a sholdere and a jakke of moton to soper.