Below stood three scruffy lads in jerkins, jeans and baseball boots.
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Some of the principal garments were woollen underclothes, heavy woollen socks and jerseys, leather jerkins, lined rubber boots, leather gauntlets, windproof smocks and trousers, and kapok coats.
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The three roof gable ends arejerkin-headed, and are decorated with bargeboard and heavy brackets.
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Usually this comprised only a quilted "aketon" orjerkinand a conical steel helmet.
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Now a nail salon, the building is said to be haunted by a stocky man dressed in a frilled shirt andjerkin.
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Its ridges end injerkinheads with a metallic wave-shaped finial.
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He wars white trousers, and possibly a dark, sleevelessjerkinover a paler, long-sleeved garment.
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It featuresjerkin-headed cross gable sections decorated with vertical valances, exposed rafter ends, and a rustic fieldstone chimney.
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It features ajerkinhead-type roof over the wing.
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The stock phrase, buffjerkin, refers to an oiled oxhidejerkin, as worn by soldiers.
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They wore a leatherjerkin, although individuals of high stature wore high quality metal armor.
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The roof consists of a hipped form at the north end andjerkinhead gable at the south.
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During this time the doublet andjerkinbecame increasingly more colorful and highly decorated.
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Optionally, ajerkin, usually sleeveless and often made of leather, was worn over the doublet.
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Jerkins were worn closed at the neck and hanging open over the "peascod-bellied" fashion of doublet.
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