jupon
Americannoun
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jupons
plural
noun
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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
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Whilst I am writing to you, may I ask you to correct a printer's error in my query in the same number, where "trepon" appears instead of "jupon"?
From Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850 by Various
Over the tunic came the flaming red jupon, blazoned on the sleeves with gules and on the back with a lion rampant argent.
From The Executioner by Frank Riley
"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 Clarence F. Underwood
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
She had now divested herself of her bascinet and steel jupon, and the young squire saw before him a tall, stately lady of about thirty years of age.
From The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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
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
"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
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