1688. RANDLE HOLME, Academy of Armoury, III., p. 96, col. 1. A … kind of Waistcoats are called CHATES, because they are to be seen rich and gaudy before, when all the back part is no such thing. Ibid., III., p. 258, col. 1. Such Gallants weare not CHEATS or half Sleeves, but … their Waistcoats are the same clear throughout. [M.]
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew. CHEATS … also Wristbands or sham Sleeves worn for true, or whole ones.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. and 1811. Lexicon Balatronicum. Sham sleeves to put over a dirty shift or shirt.
