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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 326 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JERKIN , a See also:

short See also:close-fitting jacket, made usually of See also:leather, and without sleeves, the typical male upper garment of the 16th and i7th centuries. The origin of the word is unknown. The Dutch word jurk, a See also:child's See also:frock, often taken as the source, is See also:modern, and represents neither the See also:sound nor the sense of the See also:English word. In See also:architecture the See also:term " jerkin-roofed " is applied, probably with some obscure connexion with the garment, to a particular See also:form of gable end,. the gable being cut off See also:half way up the roof and sloping back like a " hipped roof " to the edge.

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