Close-fitting breeches or leggings reaching up to the hips and fastened to a doublet, formerly worn by men. Used only in the plural. 男式紧身裤昔日男用的一种紧身短裤或者裹腿,穿至臀部并与紧身上衣系在一起(只用于复数形式)
In the times of the Tudors, a man dressed in doublet and hose and wore a ruff. 在都铎王朝时期,男人穿紧身上衣和紧身短裤,脖子上戴宽而硬的轮状皱领。
The actor had to wear a doublet in the play. 在这个剧中这个演员要穿紧身上衣。
doublet
[ noun ] a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance <noun.artifact>
Doublet \Doub"let\, n. [In sense 3, OF. doublet; in sense 4, F. doublet, dim. of double double. See {Double}, a.] 1. Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.
2. (Print.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.
3. A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.
4. (Lapidary Work) A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.
5. (Opt.) An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct. --W. H. Wollaston.
6. pl. (See No. 1.) Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.
7. pl. [Cf. Pr. doblier, dobler draughtboard.] A game somewhat like backgammon. --Halliwell.
8. One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.
To strut a part in doublet and hose is demanding enough.