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Peascod belly
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"Peascod" redirects here. For the plant and its variations, see Pea.
For the Australian artist, see William Peascod.
A peascod belly is a type of exaggeratedly padded stomach that was very popular in men's dress in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The term is thought to have come from "peacock,"[1] or from the form of contemporary plate armour.[2] Sometimes it was called a 'goose belly.'[3]
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In the late 16th century the stomach of the doublet was padded to stick out,[4] however, by 1625, the padding had become more evenly distributed over the chest area.[5]
- Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol, 1542, by Jakob Seisenegger
- Charles V Standing with His Dog, by Titian