Meanings
plural pourpoints
- historicalA quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries.
1 more example
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 looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.
- historicalA doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
Origin
- Late Latinperpunctum
- Anglo-Normanpurpoint
- Middle Englishpurpoynt
- Englishpourpoint
From Middle English purpoynt, from Anglo-Norman purpoint, alteration of perpoint, from Late Latin perpunctum, from per- + punctum (“pierced”). The modern spelling is influenced by French pourpoint.
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