weaker vessel:i.e., woman. —The phrase comes from the Biblical book of Peter, in a passage in which Peter advises women to subject themselves to their husbands and advises husbands as follows: "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered." (I Peter 3:7, KJV). doublet and hose: —Doublet and hose were the basics of any gentleman's clothing. In the painting below, the "hose" are the fashionably puffy red trunks.
Tailor in Doublet and Hose by Giovanni Battista Moroni
