Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of doublet or cloak with sleeves, in use in England from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A kind of doublet; a jacket.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun now historical A type of short doublet or tunic with sleeves, sometimes worn beneath armour.

Etymologies

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Origin uncertain; perhaps from pall +‎ -ock, though the T is unexplained. Compare paletot.

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Examples

  • He dressed in the fashion, and spent seven shillings for a short cloak or paltock, shoes, and a pair of red and black breeches.

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with cote-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, courtpie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with cote-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, courtpie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with cote-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, courtpie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with cote-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, court-pie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.

    The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with côte-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, courtpie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.

    The White Company 1890

  • "Why spoil my velvet paltock as many a hot-headed fool would have done.

    Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

  • "Why spoil my velvet paltock as many a hot-headed fool would have done.

    Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

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  • a medieval jacket warn by pages. Short, fitted doublet to which the stockings are buttoned or laced.

    October 15, 2008