jerkin

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A close-fitting, hip-length, collarless jacket having no sleeves but often extended shoulders, belted and worn over a doublet by men especially in the 1500s.

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A short, close-fitting, often sleeveless coat or jacket, usually of leather.

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A young salmon: same as ginkin.

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A short close-fitting coat or jacket, worn in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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The male of the gerfalcon.

noun

A male gyrfalcon.

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A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.

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A type of men’s garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarless jacket, with or without sleeves.

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A sleeveless jacket, usually leather; a long waistcoat.

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a tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times