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jerkin

[ jur-kin ]

noun

  1. a close-fitting jacket or short coat, usually sleeveless, as one of leather worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.


jerkin

/ ˈ»åÏôɜ˰ìɪ²Ô /

noun

  1. a sleeveless and collarless short jacket worn by men or women
  2. a man's sleeveless and collarless fitted jacket, often made of leather, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of jerkin1

First recorded in 1510–20; origin uncertain
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of jerkin1

C16: of unknown origin
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Groups like Pink Dollaz, Vixen Ent. and the Bangz ranked among the most technically vicious and virally popular artists of the jerkin’ craze, but only the latter received a record deal with a major label.

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Riding on its back was a red-skinned giant with flowers in his rust-colored braids, a jerkin of green leather, and a drakon-rib lance in his hand.

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The man wears the plain leather jerkin of a soldier or freelance “adventurer.â€

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“Each can hold to my jerkin, so we shall keep together among the yeomen.â€

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From the corner of his eye he sees a presence flit away, a fugitive lean man in a leather jerkin.

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