How To Use Doublet In A Sentence

Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent The Decameron
Joe Grue successfully ran the jack of hearts, crossed to the ace of hearts, and led the king of spades in the hope of felling a doubleton jack in the South hand. Netherlands win at home
West led top of her doubleton club, East playing out three top clubs. Times, Sunday Times
These studies have led to the findings that bundles of several doublet microtubules can propagate bending waves, and a pair of outer doublets can undergo cyclical association/dissociation interaction.
Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. Think Progress » Hastert: Foley Misconduct Was Presented As Something That ‘Might Have Affected Campaigns’

But beyond these forces is another that ratifies and multiplies their impact, helping produce a debate so remote from real answers and so infected with doubletalk that citizens tune out.
They were dressed like pages with black breeches, a doublet and a flet hat trimmed with black velvet. — 80s movie pitch of the day
The distribution of singletons, doubletons (low frequency variants), and other (high frequency) variants among the continents was investigated.
The telescope was an old Meade ED 127 doublet which I had for only couple of weeks.
The minstrels, bedecked in red doublets and white hose, played upbeat tunes to which gardens of brightly clad nobles danced merrily.
Northwest is hiring strike-breakers at the Doubletree Hotel in Romulus, only a mile-and-a-half from here.
A quatraton is inferred either from the presence of two singletons, no doubletons, and no tripletons or from the presence of no singletons, one doubleton, and no tripletons.
He pulled a doublet over his shirt and said, ‘I will try to return after all this insanity is over, I assure you.’
There is also a form written with a cyclostyle.] "DOUBLETS. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
Sad-colored mantles the goodmen wore, but their doublets were scarlet, and with their green waistcoats and red caps, surely the Puritan men were sufficiently gayly dressed to suit any fancy save that of a cavalier. Sabbath in Puritan New England
Outside the Inner party doublethink is merely an extreme form of the phenomenon known to psychologists as cognitive dissonance. The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Henry VIII was fond of wearing a velvet, gold-embroidered purple doublet encrusted with diamonds, rubies and pearls.
Slashed sleeves, tied onto a doublet at the shoulders and cloaks worn from shoulder to armpit were more than simply fashion statements; they allowed a man to draw his sword and retain full mobility of the arm.
Out of his doublet he brought a small jam jar, which he put down in the center of the table.
Her father called to her fretfully, and she went in to him again and told him what Sorry had said about the cracked doubletree, and persuaded him to let her bring his supper at once, and to have the fruit later when Frank arrived. Sawtooth Ranch
He was a wealthy man these days, and dressed in doublet and hose with a gold chain round his neck.
Though speculative, perhaps these heterodimeric motors walk along the seam of the doublet microtubules or interact optimally with the microtubule-associated proteins found on axonemal microtubules.
This nation is tired of doubletalk, of deliberate confusion, and of unseemly haste.
Additionally, all singleton, doubleton, and tripleton sites (variants that appear, respectively, only once, twice, or three times in the total sample) were verified by reamplification and resequencing.
Furthermore, speech has its own structure, independent of discourse structure and sentence structure - think about the phrase-sized groupings you can hear in skilled doubletalk.
Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent The Decameron
The boots terminate in a pair of sparkling golden spurs; his plate-metal doublet is bursting to contain his massive physique.
When it comes to concern for the effect of intervention on the locals, doublethink can really go into overdrive.
Brotton is especially good on charting the doublethink involved in this effort. Times, Sunday Times
What's the difference between bisociation and Orwellian doublethink? Bisociation, conspiracy, humor, and doublethink
His body is constantly threatening to spill out of his dishevelled clothes: he really needs a quadruplet, not a doublet. Women Beware Women; Bingo
The appearance of East's doubleton queen was a welcome sight, and all that remained was to resolve the position of the queen of clubs. The agonies of decision
Ostensibly, she is the staunchest defender of the values of the country against those of the city, but her attitude reveals a degree of doublethink which suggests that her loyalty to tradition is not as steadfast as it might seem.
He was in essence an illuminator of the darker recesses of the national psyche, a demythologiser-in-chief, a forensic dissector of PIRA-friendly doublethink, and a debunker of CJH at a time when it was far from fashionable. Slugger O'Toole
He was wearing a dashing embroidered blood-red doublet, cape, and plumed hat.
Certain advantages were reserved to the banker: -- if he drew a doublet, that is, two equal cards, he won half of the stakes upon the card which equalled the doublet; if he drew for the players the last card of the pack, he was exempt from doubling the stakes deposited on that card. The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2
Lowering the temperature appears to substantially shorten the quadrupole echo decay time of the prominent doublet component.
The difference in sign of Tajima's D for each locus separately suggests a slight excess of singletons and doubletons in the North Carolina population, although this is not significant.
Adding insult to injury, the spokesman's comments drip with sophistry, doublethink and non sequiturs. Times, Sunday Times
Etymologically speaking, a doublet is a pair of words that have the same origin but different spellings and often different meanings.
Each of the Romance languages has a large number of doublets, because the one Latin word has descended naturally by popular transmission, and then entered again later by learned transmission.
Carroll called the given words doublets, the interposed words links, and the complete series a chain.
But doublethink is a language you do not forget. Times, Sunday Times
Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.
This done, Catchpole is rich for four months at least, as if bastinadoes were his real harvest; for the monk, levite, usurer, or lawyer will reward him roundly; and my gentleman must pay him such swingeing damages that his acres must bleed for it, and he be in danger of miserably rotting within a stone doublet, as if he had struck the king. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Brechtian-style distanciation thus soon emerges as lazy, double-faced strategy on Rose's part: If something is unconvincing, it was meant to be, laying bare the device, speaking as if in quotes and all that film theory doublethink.
A nice man with a mastery of doublethink, perhaps, but you really believed that he didn't grasp the negative implications of his own political strategies.
I'm not thick, I'm not naive - I'm just sick of theory and doubletalk.
He who had been nothing but skin and bones filled out nicely - but there was in no way any ‘bulk’ on him (not that she could see that well through his doublet anyways).
In practice it was not difficult for any person well grounded in doublethink (Orwell’s emphasis) to avoid doing this, but within a couple of generations even the possibility of such a lapse would have vanished’ vii Hope Begins in the Dark: Re-reading Nineteen Eighty-Four
The names given to culs-de-sac betray the elitist doublethink running rife in planning offices. Times, Sunday Times
But as I hope to show in my discussion of pro-choice reasoning, doublethink is not all that persuasive. Feminism and Abortion
By taking the ace and 'cashing' the king, she was showing a doubleton. Bridge
Young boys wore skirts with doublets or back-fastening bodices until they were breeched at six to eight.
Okay, he says, these societies may not become democracies as we know them, but they can become places where people can live free of doublethink, free of the fear of the knock on the door from the secret police.
I was dressed like one of Robin's merry men, with the green leggings and the doublet and the soft boots.
In case East has a doubleton honor or two honors, Cy should play dummy's ace at Trick One. Bridge
Expect lots more of this newspeak and doublethink from the Moulton-Kenney Ministry of Love. Shaun Kenney Bombs?
The administration has sought to minimize the damage with a barrage of doubletalk that even the subservient media has been unable to swallow.
Outside the Inner Party, doublethink is not even consistent. The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four
There were two ways in which this might be achieved: South might have a doubleton, or he might have the singleton king. Tight finish in the English Premier League
They hide their lies in doubletalk, manipulating our English language to serve their own ends.
The astrologer was a little man, and seemed much advanced in age, for his heard was long and white, and reached over his black doublet down to his silken girdle. Kenilworth
The doublet of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin are simple in form.
It represents a bagpiper wearing a short doublet, full, knee-length breeches with a prominent codpiece, shoes with narrow rounded toes, and a hemispherical, skullcap-like hat with a very narrow brim.
Are we being told that he was capable of a sort of spiritual doublethink, persuading himself of the religious truth through his desire to believe?
I find that there's sometimes a curious case of doublethink going on in which the person with a low opinion of themselves realises at the same time that they are not quite as bad as they make themselves out to be.
Indicators of this are the short doublet and very prominent codpiece, the round-toed shoes and the knee-breeches.
[All these suggested doublets which I have obelized must be dismissed as untenable.] {25} We have in the same way double adoptions from the Greek, one direct, at least as regards the forms; one modified by its passage through some other language; thus, ‘adamant’ and ‘diamond’; English Past and Present
And what kind of pseudoscience doubletalk do you suppose they trot out to explain this policy?
And if his surcoat was thinner than he might have wished, at least he had the arming doublet under his hauberk and the otter-trimmed cloak his mother's ladies had sewn for him.
Perhaps this context of guarded or duplicitous speech illumines the doubletalk on Paul's part.
Don't bedazzle me with manifest theory or predestiny doubletalk.
For those not etymologically challenged, the word canker is a doublet.
Sir, he secured my spare doublet, and had a pluck at my galligaskins — I was enforced to beat a retreat before I was altogether unrigged. The Monastery
The doubletree served as a lever on which to mount two singletrees. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17
Admittedly this is not an easy thing to do holding just a doubleton, especially v a slam. Times, Sunday Times
[This verse, or something similar, occurs in a long ballad, or poem, on Flodden Field, reprinted by the late Henry Weber.] "Ay, and then there was Martin Swart I have heard my grandfather talk of, and of the jolly Almains whom he commanded, with their slashed doublets and quaint hose, all frounced with ribands above the nether-stocks. Kenilworth
A door opens and we see the back of a crutch-supported figure in a green doublet.
Will you blink an eye for them if the banderlats tear them to pieces or will you drown your guilt in petty self righteous doubletalk?
It's like doublethink or whatever, like in 1984.
The faithful, mature, reliable draft horse or ox stands still under one side of the doubletree or yoke, while the new, impulsive, willful partner is harnessed. Finding the Yoke Easy
Witness this lovely specimen of bigoted doublethink.
It's political doubletalk and you can smell it a mile away.
The one at lower energy is a sharp doublet with essentially no progression, just one pair of weak satellites.
The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated.
Declarer has to guess whether this is a doubleton or a singleton. Times, Sunday Times
I stripped away my aristocratic clothing, my tight fitting hose, my pointed leather shoes, my doublet and sheer tunic.
Sir, he secured my spare doublet, and had a pluck at my galligaskins — I was enforced to beat a retreat before I was altogether unrigged. The Monastery
He was all in green velvet, and every button of his doublet was a brilliant of price; and that gay raiment by its incongruity seemed to heighten the tragedy of the moment. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
He reached down and picked him up by his doublet, throwing him into a tree with a thud.
A beautiful Taiwanese pop singer and her Chinese entrepreneur bridegroom took over the Conrad, and its less expensive sister hotel, the Doubletree Hilton next door, for celebrations with 200 guests.
The latest amazing example of Left-leaning doublethink by a political psychologist is here.
If declarer believed that Sementa had chosen the unorthodox lead of a low card from a doubleton, he could now have made the contract easily because he had a tenace in diamonds – the eight would force West to cover with the nine, and declarer's six would beat West's three. Two unorthodox leads
A small smile lit Lavena's face for a brief moment, perhaps in gratitude for Earnstheart's consistent honesty, as she flung her arms round his middle, and wept quietly into his doublet.
It relies on doubletalk, uncertainty, lies, and keeping your opponent unsure of just how crazy you are.
Understanding this merely requires a grand exercise in Orwellian doublethink, Greek sophistry and a uniquely Lawloresque take on the world.
Standing erect on the poop, conspicuous in his cramoisy doublet, the tall figure of the old admiral was seen for an hour and a half directing the conflict, sword in hand, an easy mark for sharpshooters, as a wound in the knee reminded him. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
He wore a black suit with a red doublet and a black bow tie.
It may be that this putative prosodic breathy voice played a (limited) morphological role analogous to ablaut or n-infixation, explaining to some extent the apparent voiceless/voiced ("aspirated") root doublets. PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?
The doublet was rent asunder by imperial decree, as when a lapidist melts the mastic that holds in deception adamant and glass, while real diamond stands all fire short of the hydro-oxygen flame. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
This doublethink is at the heart of forked-tongued politics.
But doublethink is still a valuable tool. Times, Sunday Times
Every homesteader who had a tug that would fasten over a doubletree, a wagon that could still squeak, or a flivver that had a bolt in it, went into the transportation business -- hauling the seekers from Pierre or from McClure to look at the land. Land of the Burnt Thigh
Can East work out whether West has led from a singleton or a doubleton? Times, Sunday Times
While the price charged usually bears a fair relation to the value of the material furnished, it would be better to offer tourmaline, or peridot (the mineral name of which is olivine), or demantoid garnet (sometimes wrongly called "Olivine"), or "emerald doublets," or emerald or A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
He is the master of wedge politics, of the wolf whistle and of spin or doubletalk or should we call it ‘Newspeak’.
The priest exuded doublethink like a fog. Times, Sunday Times
His play of ace and another club seemed indicative of just a doubleton. Times, Sunday Times
[5] Perhaps Breeches will one day be as old fashioned as doublet and jerkin, as in another case though the song says 'With good old leathern bottle, and ale that looks so brown' [6] and yet I doubt that in another fifty years a leather bottle will not be found but in the song. Letter 94
Here Pons paused to hold up to scorn my new scarlet satin doublet — a wondrous thing of which I had been extravagant. Chapter 11
Skirts twisted around legs as ladies spun, men's doublet sleeves traded with the sleeves of shifts and chemises as couples turned around quickly to the music.
He wore a dark blue velvet doublet and blue hose.
We generally apply the term numerically or specifically or generically-numerically in cases where there is more than one name but only one thing, e.g. ‘doublet’ and Topics
The fact is, we were within five minutes of getting a wheen Stewart dirks in our doublets, and if there was no brulzie on foot we were even yet as good as lost on John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Arrived at the close of the second day in Canterbury, the two "toke" their inn at the sign of the "Falstaff," where hung "Honest Jack, in buff doublet and red hose," in a wonderful piece of wrought-iron work. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
Well, he started off with a cracked doubletree," he said slowly. The Quirt
And in this yere Edwarde the kynges sone was wounded of a Saresyn at Acres, whiche broughte hym lettres fro the Sowdone, the whiche Sowdone menynge tresone hadde sent the same Sarasyn with the lettres unto the said kynges sone Edward, whiche for hete of the contrey eyre satt on a bedde in his doublet, and opened them. A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum
A comfortable option is the DoubleTree Biltmore Hotel (115 Hendersonville Rd.; 828-274-1800; biltmorefarmshotels. com/doubletree; rooms from around $150 a night). Crafts and Rafts in Asheville, N.C.
Maybe the bravos in the night would stalk him to get a piece of that leather doublet and linen shirt for themselves…
a slashed doublet
We excluded singletons and doubletons and compared the following seven sites in order: M1046, M1312, M1414, M4325, A2144, A3203, and A3416.
He was clad in a royal-looking doublet, hose and an over-tunic, which bore a crest.
All of the rhetoric and doubletalk aside, everyone knows that the tariff was an appeasement to a few U.S. mill owners whose inferior lumber couldn't compete on a level playing field.
Whereas the effect of the redshift is to multiply the wavelength of every line in the spectrum by the name number, 1 + z, any variation in only changes the relative separation between the lines in the doublet.
As to our poverty, friend," replied Richie, "that is as Heaven pleases; but touching our falset, I'll prove to you that a Scotsman bears as leal and true a heart to his friend as ever beat in English doublet. The Fortunes of Nigel
The lower part of the doublet is a skirt falling just above the knees. Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation
Momently, looking out toward the gray ruin on the hill (which was once, most likely, the very "sheepcote fenced about with olive trees" where Aliena dwelt and Ganymede found hose and doublet give such pleasing freedom to her limbs and her wit) one expects to hear the merry note of a horn; the moralizing Duke would come striding thoughtfully through the thicket down by the tiny pool Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
The doublethink employed by the author is almost beyond belief - he basically states that the DI wishes to attack the scientific method, and then claims that they aren't trying to attack the scientific method.
His doublet was an ornate confection of red and gold, his hose black.
Mr. John Burger, a veteran hotelier with 25 years of relevant experience, is among the first general managers of Doubletree hotels in China.
In a trump contract, the play of a higher card followed by a lower one may be made from a doubleton, indicating a desire to ruff, rather than just from a holding including a high card.
That," said Henry, "is what they call a doublet, and I should say that it is the finest one belonging to Captain Alvarez. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi
There are many cases, for both maps, where there is agreement of close double-recombination events (where a singlet or a doublet of scores of one genotype is flanked by a run of the other genotype).
Conservatives (read: Republicans) want to be allowed to engage in doublethink on stem cell research, like they do on the more basic tenets of “decency” and “morality.” Think Progress » Defending Bush’s Veto, Rove Grossly Distorts Stem Cell Science
Then motor "togs" -- a long linen duster, with a cap and goggles -- seemed a most convenient mask for so many young men, who were not vain enough to want to don doublet and hose. The Motor Girls
His ponytail, usually held with a strip of leather or cheap ribbon, was now pulled together with fabric to match his doublet and white britches.
If the hearts had split 3-3 (or if a defender had held K-Q doubleton), South could have drawn trumps and led to the king of diamonds to take the good hearts. Bridge
Thy hat was not made to give laws to my turban; thy ruff and thy curtailed doublets are not to command my doliman. A Philosophical Dictionary
His doubletalk, fierce anger, and conspiracy theories do not register well with independents.
Rose placed herself behind her mistress, half kneeling upon the same cushions, and watched the motions of the all-accomplished soldier and statesman, whom the voice of fame lauded so loudly; enjoying his embarrassment as a triumph of her sex, and scarcely of opinion that his shamois doublet and square form accorded with the splendour of the scene, or the almost angelic beauty of The Betrothed
The subject of distortion was next treated of, and the manner in which the idea of a non distorting doublet could be evolved from a single bi-convex lens by division into two plano-convex lenses with a central diaphragm was shown. Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
That might be a singleton or it might be from queen-10 doubleton. Fourth time lucky
The pub is a mecca for yachters - including Princess Anne, who anchors her ocean-going yacht Royal Doublet in the sheltered deep waters of the loch.
He looks very fine in a doublet of burgundy velvet with a jerkin over it of black silk and cloth of silver. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
Material for making garments included linen of several grades, blue linen for facing doublets, dowlas, canvas for sheets and shirts. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
He makes all the costumes for his models, including the elaborate armor and leather doublets some of the women in his images sport.
The sliding displacement between doublets may be found by multiplying the shear angle, in radians, by the interdoublet distance.
According to Davenant, in 1639 Suckling spent the colossal sum of £12,000 on equipping "100 very handsome proper young men, whom he clad in white doublets and scarlett breeches, and scarlet coates, hatts, and . . . feathers" to lend military support to the king's ill-fated advance against the first Scottish rebellion, one episode in the long period of conflict. Pens at the Ready
He has been reduced on occasions this season to a kind of doublethink. Times, Sunday Times
'They were dressed in striped hose of black and tawny, velvet caps graced at the sides with silver roses, and doublets of murrey and blue cloth, embroidered on the front and back with the three feathers, the prince's blazon, woven in gold. Vietnam: Solutions
Instead of going on peace demonstrations and fulminating about the horrendous injustice and doublethink perpetrated by all participants, I should have been figuring the angles for profit opportunities!
The regime does not stop trying to restore control, to bring you back into the fold of doublethink. Times, Sunday Times
His mind hovered for a moment round the doubtful date on the page, and then fetched up with a bump against the Newspeak word doublethink.
Of these, 75 are singletons, two are doubletons, and one is present in three sequences.
The high velvet shoulder of his doublet smelt musty as though it had been lying in a trunk for centuries.
When instead he felled North's doubleton ace, he could not establish the spade suit and eventually finished two down. Netherlands win at home
I'll play you any cramp game you like - shell-out, skittle pool, pyramids, caroline, doublet or go-back. 5 What d'ye say? The Sky Writer
Ay, and then there was Martin Swart I have heard my grandfather talk of, and of the jolly Almains whom he commanded, with their slashed doublets and quaint hose, all frounced with ribands above the nether-stocks. Kenilworth
The free sliding experiments suggest that mechanical linkages between the doublets prevent free sliding in an intact axoneme.
This political doublethink seems to have struck down all sorts of people in high places.
Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his ales and his cups; so also Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his good judgments, turned away the fat knight with the great belly-doublet: he was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and mocks; I have forgot his name. The Life of King Henry the Fifth
Rude hands seized me from behind, and the doublet was torn from my back by fingers that never paused to untruss my points. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
Perhaps this context of guarded or duplicitous speech illumines the doubletalk on Paul's part.
West signaled with the ten to show a doubleton, and East let dummy's king and queen win. Bridge
Initially, the differential sites are classified into singletons, doubletons, or tripletons for each of the six OTUs separately or for the various combinations of the OTUs, as described in Materials and Methods.
Oh, such a slight deflection, a matter of inches, just barely sufficient to send his point past me so that it pierced a fold of my satin doublet in passing. Chapter 11
However, a small amount of monospecific antiserum was obtained from a mouse injected with the polypeptides, beta 2 and 3, which occur as a doublet on two-dimensional gels.
After more than a half hour, I realized that the discussion involved much more than the mechanics of our transport; both were using this sort of doubletalk as a means of expressing continuing distrust.
Forty six interminable hours of being seated in front of eleven thin, nervous, gangly supposedly artistic men lay before Briar as he reluctantly donned his finest doublet the following morning, aided by his valet, Godric.
The king began unlacing his doublet, walking towards her as he had the night before.
He just wants metronomes, randomness, atonality, doubletime kick drums and clicks.
Northwest is hiring strike-breakers at the Doubletree Hotel in Romulus, only a mile-and-a-half from here.
The names given to culs-de-sac betray the elitist doublethink running rife in planning offices. Times, Sunday Times
In it the second Rhyming Doublet is divided by a kind of parenthetic Rhythmic Solitaire. Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study
For a full list of green certified Doubletree hotels throughout the U.S., visit doubletree. com Lauren Elyse Matison: Eco Escapes: 10 Hotels Around the World Plant Trees For Guests
But in this exhibition you also refer to the ‘old masters’ as evidence of innovators who must speak doubletalk in order to get away with what they're trying to say.
Lacy continued, indeed, in nominal observance of his vow, to dwell in a pavilion by the gates of Gloucester; but he seldom donned his armour, substituted costly damask and silk for his war-worn shamois doublet, and affected at his advanced time of life more gaiety of attire than his contemporaries remembered as distinguishing his early youth. The Betrothed
Through exercises in doublethink and self-delusion described in detail by Revel, democracies are fatally prone to questioning their own motives and giving their opponents the benefit of the doubt. Spilling the Beans in Paris and London
There is a marvellous combination of doublespeak and doublethink here. Times, Sunday Times
All this they should discuss in their room at night, assured that they would be overlooked and overheard; and when quite certain that eyes were watching them, Lord Claud was to unrip his doublet and take thence Tom Tufton's Travels
Three horses drew the plow, which has three singletrees and one doubletree. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17
After putting on his crimson satin doublet and his long robe, not forgetting his black silk coif, he took leave of his wife, who was still in bed, and assured her that every evening he would come and sup with her, but that she must not expect him at dinner. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
When the dyneins have been disabled with vanadate, the remaining structures that bridge the doublets are the nexin links and the radial spokes.
A current example of Doublethink about normality is the way many mental health professionals classify behavior in old people.
This ion has a single electron in its outer shell and its first excited energy level is split into a doublet as a result of interactions between the orbital and spin angular momenta of the electron.
When leading from a doubleton you must lead top. Times, Sunday Times
Until this cycle of excuses and doubletalk ends, the rest of us won't be able to separate the good from the bad.
With its numerous examples of corporate doublethink and trendy PR jargon, this is the kind of book which bandies round words like ‘talent’ and ‘quality’ without actually bothering to wonder what they mean.
This novel is sure to make you doublethink Orwell's version.
For anyone with any kind of MP3 player, though, doubleTwist can be helpful in locating and grabbing podcasts. DoubleTwist Adds Podcasting To Its Device Syncing Powers | Lifehacker Australia
The Wawa stores around here U Penn made me do a bit of a doubletake for some time when I first got here because to me wawa is the Chinook Jargon word "to speak, language, talk" and I didn't expect to see it so far from home. Languagehat.com: THE KAMLOOPS WAWA.
Should this nomenclature be considered a better example of newspeak or doublethink? Globe and Mail
I bet Ducati now feel silly about that carbon fibre frame ... pity you didn't publish this naughty sneak preview before the Duke pics - I bet they would have withdrawn the concept doubletime and gone into the GP09 paddock with a cleverly disguised oil-cooled shaft driven twin. Honda Fury factory chopper leaks ahead of official New York unveiling - Hell For Leather
By an amazing exploit of doublethink, he manages to convince himself that theistic explanations are simple explanations.
Neer ask me what raiment Ill wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet: nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather. Induction. Scene II. The Taming of the Shrew
Broadly defined, a doublet is a pair of cognate words, almost always of Latin or Greco-Latin origin, of which one (here always placed second) retains a form close to the source, while the other has diverged by having passed through Old and Middle French and thence into Middle and Modern English -- though French is occasionally by-passed. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4
Instead of doublets and Elizabethan ruffs, we should have Gunne Sax frills and parachute pants.
One will not learn anything about Twelfth Night by eating a manchet or stroking a velvet doublet, but introducing the play with an ‘Elizabethan experience’ need not always be valueless.
The mechanism by which the oscillatory movements produced by these two opposing pairs of doublets are coupled with each other remains to be elucidated.

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