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

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

Then, unable to breathe freely, he tore open his rich velvet pourpoint, as he rushed frantically to and fro, without any regard for the superb diamond buttons that fastened it, which flew in every direction.

From Captain Fracasse by Gautier, Théophile

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

She told herself that he would look better in a silken pourpoint, and better still in the chlamys-robe of state.

From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar

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.