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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Doublet \Doub"let\, n. [In sense 3, OF doublet; in sense 4, F. doublet, dim. of double double. See {Double}, a.] 1. Two of the same kind a pair; a couple. 2. (Print.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time. 3. 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. 4. (Lapidary Work) 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. 5. (Opt.) 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. --W. H. Wollaston. 6. pl (See No 1.) Two dice, each of which when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as to throw doublets. 7. pl [Cf. Pr doblier dobler draughtboard.] A game somewhat like backgammon. --Halliwell. 8. 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: doublet n : a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance
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