paltock

English

Alternative forms

• paltok [14th–16th c.]

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /paltɒk/

Noun

paltock (plural paltocks)

1. (historical) A type of short doublet or tunic with sleeves, sometimes worn beneath armour.
   • 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel

     The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.

Descendants

• → Middle French: paltoke, paletoc
  • French: paletot
    • → Bulgarian: палто (palto), ⇒ балтон (balton)
    • → Catalan: paltó
    • → English: paletot
    • → German: Paletot
    • → Greek: παλτό (paltó)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: پالطو (palto)

      > Turkish: palto (inherited)

    • → Persian: پالتو
    • → Polish: palto
    • → Portuguese: paletó
    • → Romanian: palton
    • → Russian: пальто (palʹto) (see there for further descendants)
    • → Spanish: paltó
    • → Ukrainian: пальто (palʹto)
  • → Spanish: paletoque