Put on two leathern jerkinsand aprons, and wait upon him at his table as drawers.
Sirrah, here will be the Prince and Master Poins anon; and they will put on two of our jerkins and aprons; and Sir John must not know of it.
Broadcloth gowns of russet tones were worn by those who could not afford silks and satins; sometimes women wore doublets and jerkins of black and browns.
The men wore doublets andjerkins of browns and greens, and cloaks with red and purple linings.
For dress occasions the men wore black velvet jerkins with white ruffs, like those in the authentic portrait of Edward Winslow.
It was of little moment, however; for we rode in the lighter buff jerkins instead of heavy mail, and were not going far.
Now we were not, for we had thought of no meeting such as this, and rode in woollen jerkins and the like, and had only our swords and seaxes, as usual; but for the moment I did not think that we should need either.
Decker tells us that "their apparele in which they walke is commonly freize jerkins and gallye slops.
These go commonly in jerkins of leather or of white frese, & carry little wandes in their hands, and will walke through grounds and pasturs, to search and se horses mete for their purpose.
It shore the spear shafts, and the brass-studded shields seemed to split before it touched them, and the tough leather jerkins of the forest men could not hold its edge back.
Sirrah, here will be the prince and Master Poins anon; and they will put on two of our jerkins and aprons; and Sir John must not know of it: Bardolph hath brought word.
None of them had put on his armour, and many had thrown off their jerkins so as to have a freer use of their arms either for bow or axe.
On the shoulders and arms of their leathern jerkins iron rings were sewn thickly, forming a sort of chain armour, while permitting perfect freedom of the limbs.
Buff belts and all manner ofjerkins and costumes are transitory; man alone is perennial.
They wore Spanish mantillas, coats with large velvet lapels, pointed doublets or jerkins of satin or damask velvet in place of the usual waistcoat, long hair after the Merovingian fashion, and pointed beards.
To Scott's generation they seemed eminently modern and prosaic, while buff jerkins and coats of mail were poetically remote.
All of the men's jerkins or tunics are made on the simple lines of a man's shirt, opened a little at the neck and belted in at the waist.
It may be easier to lengthen the skirts of the boys' jerkins almost to the knee and let them wear regular stockings and bloomers instead of tights.
Cuirasses and leathern jerkins are mentioned in the inscriptions of Thûtmosis III.
But the good mail beneath our jerkins will do no harm.
Pierced through their half-mailed war-jerkins of wolf and boar hide, scores of the forest-men fell dead or wounded, and the wedge hurled forward to strike the line where weakened by their fall.
Their jerkinswere always of a hue that might attract the eye of ladies in the bower or serving-damsels at the washing-green.
Ben began to serve out the buff jerkins and steel caps.
Just a mob of men scratched together, and put into jerkins and headpieces, and with swords stuck in their fisties.
Most of them had stripped off their coats and jerkinsto give their arms free play, and some of the best were busied in taking counsel with their friends as to the lie of the green.
Some twenty men in buff jerkins and steel headpieces rode with a fine clatter of bridles and clank of swords.
Livingston Jerkins (you remember him) picked her out of the whole lot of girls as the 'prettiest filly in the stable.
The white men on board the shallop were doubtless dressed in the manner of seamen of their day--loose breeches and jerkins of canvas, hose of coarse wool and boots of leather.
Put on two leathern jerkins and aprons, and[3621] wait upon him at his table as drawers.
Six retainers in jerkinsembroidered with the earl's cognizance appeared at the doors.
See if there are any windows or loopholes in the chamber above, and if so stuff your jerkins into them; we will close up those here.
But our patience is really exhausted, when we are forced to attend to the black stockings and blue jerkins of the inferior persons in the train, and to the whole process of turning out the guard with advanced arms on entering the castle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jerkins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
