pourpoint
English
Etymology
Middle English purpoint, Anglo-Norman purpoint, spelled influenced by Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
Noun
pourpoint (plural pourpoints)
- (historical) A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries.
- Coordinate terms: aketon, gambeson, haustement
- 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
- The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.
- (historical) A doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
Related terms
References
- “pourpoint”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “pourpoint”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “pourpoint”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “pourpoint”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /puʁ.pwɛ̃/
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “pourpoint”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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