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pourpoints

pourpoints is the plural of pourpoint.

Meaning of pourpoint

Noun

pourpoint (plural pourpoints)

  1. (historical) A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries.
    • 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...1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
  2. (historical) A doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.

Questions about pourpoints

What is pourpoints the plural of?
Pourpoints is the plural of pourpoint.

Words near pourpoints in the dictionary

  1. pourparties
  2. pourparty
  3. pourpoint
  4. pourpointerie
  5. pourpointing
  6. pourpoints
  7. pourpresture
  8. pourprestures
  9. Pourquoi Pas
  10. pourquoi stories
  11. pourquoi story

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