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A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Examples
- 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.
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A doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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From Middle English purpoynt, from Anglo-Norman purpoint, alteration of perpoint, from Late Latin perpunctum, from per- + punctum (“pierced”). The modern spelling is influenced by French pourpoint.
