But the doublets only approximately resemble the real opals.
First came a troop of young and comely gentlemen, three hundred in all, representing the pride and valour of the kingdom, wearing cloth of silver doublets and brandishing naked swords which flashed in the sunlight.
These were followed by a brave troop in blue doublets adorned with silver lace, carrying banners of red silk fringed with gold.
They were dressed in doublets of thickly quilted cotton, capable of turning an arrow or resisting the thrust of a native spear; although they would offer but poor protection against English arrows, or English weapons.
They were big swarthy fellows, with soft wide-brimmed hats, each decked with a feather, brown leather doublets and hose, and long boots.
You and I will rig ourselves in the doublets and hose of the two yonder; it will go hard with us if, in the dark, we do not mislead the Spaniards into security.
Thus spake he, and they were fain to hear and to obey, and wiped the dust from them and put their doublets on.
Fine linen the maidens had on, and the youths well-woven doubletsfaintly glistening with oil.
He spake, and opened fair lids of chests wherefrom he chose twelve very goodly women's robes and twelve cloaks of single fold and of coverlets a like number and of fair sheets, and of doublets thereupon.
Here his skill in polemics was called into requisition, in an encounter with two New England Antinomians, and a certain Anabaptist tailor who was making more rents in the garrison's orthodoxy than he mended in their doublets and breeches.
These doublets were for a long time stuffed or bombasted into the form known as 'pea's cod bellied' or 'shotten-bellied.
Doublets are often made loose, and little sets of slashes appear inside the elbow of the sleeves, which will presently become one long slash in Cavalier costumes.
Doublets that hangmen would bury with these that wore them.
Henry at that place; a gratuity to the singers of the French monarch, and to those of the Cardinal of Lorrain; payment of the doublets given to the guard to wrestle in before the two kings at Calais; the sum of 700l.
The glare was intense; and the rays of a vertical sun beat fiercely on the iron mail and the thick quilted doublets of cotton, till the fainting troops were almost suffocated with the heat.
But at this sort of work, many doublets must be slashed and many swords broken.
As he did so three men in green doublets and red hose rode up and took their places behind him.
The dress is easy enough, for they bear no special badge or cognizance, although generally they are attired in dark green doublets and trunks and red hose.
Scotland into garters, but into stockings waist high, and doublets and bonnets and shoes of beautifully green and thick fir-plaid.
While otherdoublets deviate here and there, What secret handcuff binds that pretty pair?
Dimly the transit morning broke; The sun seemed doubting what to do, As one who questions how to dress, And takes his doublets from the press, And halts between the old and new.
He spent it all on his troops for hosen, doublets and other clothes.
We must put on the leathern doublets and cloaks, and shoulder our pikes.
They were brilliantly decked in fleshlings with slashed doublets and plumed chapeaus, and short jeweled cloaks drooped from their shoulders.
The fear of burnt doubletsor kirtles had effectually sobered these over-flowing tempers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doublets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
