jupon

American  

[joo-pon, joo-pon, zhy-pawn] / ˈdʒu pɒn, dʒuˈpɒn, ʒüˈpɔ̃ /

noun

• jupons
  plural

1. a close-fitting tunic, usually padded and bearing heraldic arms, worn over armor.

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jupon British  

/ ˈʒuːpɒn /

noun

1. Also called: gipon.  a short close-fitting sleeveless padded garment, used in the late 14th and early 15th centuries with armour

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• jupons
  plural

Etymology

Origin of jupon

1350–1400; Middle English jopo ( u ) n < Middle French jupon, equivalent to Old French jupe a kind of jacket + -on noun suffix

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

jupon jupons

If I can only lay my hand on that number—— but I’ve lent it to so many people, and there was a capital paper pattern in it too, of the jupon à l’Impératrice, ready pricked.”

From Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

To have hinted that the jupon, camisole, and curl-papers were odious objects, or indeed other than quite meritorious points, would have been a felony.

From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

Indeed, it may be questioned whether any invention known to modern Europe had so sudden and wonderful a success or made the inventor so talked about as Eugénie's famous jupon d'acier.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

Then, carrying the dolls in her petticoat, she solemnly undid the button, let it slip down with the dolls inside, and placed it resolutely in the basket, saying: "J'y mets mon jupon!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various

"It is a prisoner whom I have taken, and in sooth, as he came from the royal tent and wears the royal arms upon his jupon, I trust that he is the King of Spain."

From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"C'est le Roi Georges en jupons," echoed the surrounding ladies, as the little creature waddled with difficulty from one to the other.

From Queen Victoria by Giles Lytton Strachey

It is indeed so late that instead of the jupons, striped and black and white, of which Georgette has made irreproachable but profitable use, she appears at the denouement in a crinoline!

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

There was also much talk about a skirt composed of a series of jupons which should correspond in number with the wearer's fortune, but in no way detract from her charms of person.

From Ticket No. "9672" by Laura E. Kendall

The various elegant designs for handkerchiefs, jupons, shirts, &c. are worked in raised satin stitch.

From The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850 by Unknown