Meanings
nounpoupeton (plural poupetons)
plural poupetons
- obsoleteA puppet.
Empires have worshipped what these scoundrels stooled, taking for gods the merest poupetons.
1850, Edward Vaughan Kenealy, Goethe: A New Pantomime, page 2681 more example
Not yield?—is it weak to yield Since you drew him on Like a poupeton Where his love cried out and kneeled To do your least will , to catch one nod Of a wish he could grant you above sod ?
1911, Frederick Fanning Ayer, Bell and Wing, page 1007 - historicalcookingA pulpatoon.
Origin
- Frenchpoupeton
- Englishpoupeton
From French poupeton. See puppet.
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