pourpoint

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This flamboyant garment--a defiance and a challenge to the academicians who had come to hiss Hugo's play--was, in fact, a pourpoint or jerkin of cherry-coloured satin, cut in the shape of a Milanese cuirass, pointed, busked, and arched in front, and fastened behind the back with hooks and eyes.

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  1. A stuffed and quilted garment, as a military coat of fence, stuffed like the gambeson. The knight wears a studded pourpoint. J. Hewitt, Ancient Armour, II. 23.
  2. A close-fitting garment worn by men in the fourteenth century and later, as distinguished from the doublet, which superseded it.
  3. Representations of it show a smoothly drawn garment, without wrinkles or folds. Item, j. coveryng of whyte lynen clothe. Item, j. purpoynt. Paston Letters, I. 482. The slashed velvets, the ruffs, the jeweled purpoints of the courtiers around. Green, Short History of the [English People, p. 389.
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  • This flamboyant garment--a defiance and a challenge to the academicians who had come to hiss Hugo's play--was, in fact, a pourpoint or jerkin of cherry-coloured satin, cut in the shape of a Milanese cuirass, pointed, busked, and arched in front, and fastened behind the back with hooks and eyes. —  A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
  • We would rather see him carry home the stuff for a new cloak and pourpoint, or even those very attractive silk stockings for his shrunk shank, than that silver pitcher which he was too Castilian ever to turn to any sensible use. —  Castilian Days
  • His pourpoint was barred with gold, and deep fringes of the same precious metal adorned its borders. —  The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence
  • This man, dressed in citizen costume buttoned up like a military pourpoint, a very small hat on his head, but a long shagreen-mounted sword by his side, turned his head as soon as he heard the steps of the horses, and left off looking at the house to look at the dragoons. —  Ten Years Later
  • 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. —  Captain Fracasse
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  1. from French pourpoint (Old French pourpoint, purpoint, later Middle English purpeynte) = Provencal perpong, perpoing, perponh = Spanish perpunte = Portuguese perpoente, from Middle Latin perpunctum, a quilted garment, properly neuter past participle of Late Latin perpungere, pierce through, from Latin per, through, + pungere, pierce: see pungent, point.
  2. from pourpoint, n.
 

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