jerkin

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “[T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest.”

2. isim A sleeveless jacket, usually leather; a long waistcoat.

   “A tall and very good-looking kid in a jerkin came out of the store and rode the coupé off around the corner and came back walking, his glistening black hair plastered with rain.”

3. isim Alternative form of gyrkin.