peascod
nounEtymology From Middle English pesecod; equivalent to pease + cod.
1
Archaic The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
2
Historical A padded doublet fashionable in 16th century Europe.
- [A] Tudor figure, whose clothing contains enough accurate details – from the peascod style doublet with its row of tiny buttons to the voluptuous panes of the trunk hose – to clearly date it to the 1570s or 1580s.2015, Matthew Champion, Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England’s Churches, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 19:
- Related terms
- peascod breastplate, peapod