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

"Everything from when you slew the odious Abbot until the fight ended on the stairs; and you can never know, dear, the joy with which I recognized the Stag upon your jupon."

From Beatrix of Clare by Underwood, Clarence F.

Sur un bas rouge bien tiré Brille, sous le jupon doré, La mule blanche— in spite of these lines I did not find the Ischian women eminent, as those of Capri are, for beauty.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington

Sous le noir fouet de guerre à quadruple pompon, L’étalon belliqueux en hennissant se cabre, Et fait bruire, avec de cliquetis de sabre, La cuirasse de bronze aux lames du jupon.

From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Hearn, Lafcadio

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

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 Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty