thickset

Had Darrell been placed amidst the circumstances that make happy the homes of earnest men, Darrell would have been mirthful; had Waife been placed amongst the circumstances that concentrate talent, and hedge round life with trained thicksets and belting laurels, Waife would have been grave.

When he, with thickset coat of Badge-man’s blue,

Moves near her shaded silk of changeful hue;

[…] his coat was originally what is called a thickset, but out at the elbows;