purpoint
purpoint is the alternative form of pourpoint.
Meaning of pourpoint
Noun
pourpoint (plural pourpoints)
- 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
- A doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
Forms of purpoint
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Questions about purpoint
- What is purpoint the alternative form of?
- Purpoint is the alternative form of pourpoint.
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