haqueton Obs. exc. Hist.
(ˈhæktən)
Forms: 5 hacton, 5–9 haqueton, 6 hocton, hugtoun, 6–7 haketon(e, ho(c)queton, 9 hauqueton, hawketon, 6– hacqueton; see also acton.
[A later modification of ME. aketoun, acton (q.v.), after OF. hocqueton, hocton, F. hoqueton.]
A stuffed jacket or jerkin worn under the mail; a jacket of leather or the like plated with mail: = acton.
| a 1400 Octavian 878 When he on Florent hacton caste. c 1477 Caxton Jason 16 He percid hit and the hauberk and the haqueton. 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccccxix. 734 Hocquetons and gantlettes of steele. 1560 Rolland Crt. Venus i. 91 His Hugtoun was of Crammesie veluet. 1599 Thynne Animadv. (1875) 31 ‘Haketon’ is a slevelesse Iackett of plate for the warre, couered withe anye other stuffe. a 1693 Urquhart Rabelais iii. vii. 65, I am..weary of wearing..Hoquetons. 1820 Scott Ivanhoe xxviii, To see the gore trickle down his rich embroidered hacqueton. 1830 James Darnley xxxi, He was dressed in a hacqueton, or close jacket of buff leather. |