gipon

[ji-pon, jip-on]

noun

1. jupon.

gipon

/ ˈdʒɪpɒn, dʒɪˈpɒn /

noun

1. another word for jupon

Example Sentences

He wears, you see, a fustian gipon, which is stained with the rust of his armour.

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In the year 1542, but whether under the government of De Gama or De Sousa is uncertain, Antonio de Mota, Francisco Zeymoto, and Antonio Peixoto, while on a voyage to China, were driven by a storm among the islands of Nipongi or Nijon, called Gipon by the Chinese, and known in Europe by the name of Japan.

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The gipon was part of a man's attire, being, as Mr. Tyrwhitt defines it, "a short cassock," and was worn under the armor.

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Thus Chaucer, in the Prologue to his "Canterbury Tales," says of his knight's dress,   "Of fustian he wered a gipon   Alle besmotred with his habergeon."

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"Nos François appelloient ce roy Ferdinand Jehan Gipon, je ne sçay pour quelle dérision; mais il nous cousta bon, et nous fist bien du mal, et fust un grand roy et sage."

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