Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as courtepy.

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Examples

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

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

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

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

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

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

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

    The White Company 1890

  • The blue courtpie of satin was bordered with ermine, and the sleeves, sitting close to an arm of exquisite contour, shone with seed pearls.

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • But it goes to my old heart when I see you shut up here, or worse, going out in that old courtpie and wimple, -- you, a knight's grandchild; you, who have played round a queen's knees, and who might have been so well-to-do, an 'my master had thought a little more of the gear of this world.

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The blue courtpie of satin was bordered with ermine, and the sleeves, sitting close to an arm of exquisite contour, shone with seed pearls.

    The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • But he marries, and, lo, a host of fairy champions, who pinch the rival lozels unawares: his wife hath her army of courtpie and jupon, to array against the dames of his foes!

    The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • But it goes to my old heart when I see you shut up here, or worse, going out in that old courtpie and wimple, -- you, a knight's grandchild; you, who have played round a queen's knees, and who might have been so well-to-do, an 'my master had thought a little more of the gear of this world.

    The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • a host of fairy champions, who pinch the rival lozels unawares: his wife hath her army of courtpie and jupon, to array against the dames of his foes!

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 10 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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