pourpoint

American  

[poor-point, -pwant] / ˈpʊərˌpɔɪnt, -ˌpwænt /

noun

1. a stuffed and quilted doublet worn by men from the 14th to 17th centuries.

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pourpoint British  

/ ˈpʊəˌpɔɪnt /

noun

1. a man's stuffed quilted doublet of a kind worn between the Middle Ages and the 17th century

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Etymology

Origin of pourpoint

1350–1400; < French, noun use of past participle of pourpoindre to quilt, perforate, equivalent to pour-, for par- (< Latin per ) through + poindre (< Latin pungere to prick, pierce; see point); replacing Middle English purpont < Anglo-Latin purpunctus

Example Sentences

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pourpoint

It is good oil, of high gasoline content and such low pourpoint that the pipeline can be laid on the surface.

From Time Magazine Archive

The jester Le Brusquet I did not recognize at all, though I noticed the royal cipher on his pourpoint.

From Orrain A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S.

Seizing a flagon of foaming Burgundy, the knight of the gold embroidered pourpoint quaffed it to the lovely Joan Du Bois.

From The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence by Ballou, Maturin Murray

The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with cote-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, court-pie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

I had but time to seize Michelot by the collar of his pourpoint and draw him towards me.

From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes by Sabatini, Rafael