Belly doublet
| a doublet of the 16th century, hanging down so as to cover the belly. |
See also: Belly
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
References in periodicals archive
Morse unites Stubbes's 1583 critique with an illustration from Giacomo Franco's Habiti delle donne Venetiane (1610), in which a woman and a man both wear peascod
belly doublets (64).
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