/ · 1894 Brewer’s · J · Jerkin
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A short coat or jacket; a close waistcoat.
“Mistress line, is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line.”—Shakespeare: The Tempest, iv. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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