jupon

American  

[joo-pon, joo-pon, zhy-pawn] / ˈdʒu pɒn, dʒuˈpɒn, ʒüˈpɔ̃ /

noun

plural

jupons

1. a close-fitting tunic, usually padded and bearing heraldic arms, worn over armor.

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jupon British  

/ ˈʒuːpɒn /

noun

1. Also called: gipon.  a short close-fitting sleeveless padded garment, used in the late 14th and early 15th centuries with armour

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Etymology

Origin of jupon

1350–1400; Middle English jopo ( u ) n < Middle French jupon, equivalent to Old French jupe a kind of jacket + -on noun suffix

Example Sentences

"They wear armor," said he, "but I discern no jupon."

From Beatrix of Clare by Underwood, Clarence F.

"Everything from when you slew the odious Abbot until the fight ended on the stairs; and you can never know, dear, the joy with which I recognized the Stag upon your jupon."

From Beatrix of Clare by Underwood, Clarence F.

If I can only lay my hand on that number—— but I’ve lent it to so many people, and there was a capital paper pattern in it too, of the jupon à l’Impératrice, ready pricked.”

From Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

Whilst I am writing to you, may I ask you to correct a printer's error in my query in the same number, where "trepon" appears instead of "jupon"?

From Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850 by Various

Sur un bas rouge bien tiré Brille, sous le jupon doré, La mule blanche— in spite of these lines I did not find the Ischian women eminent, as those of Capri are, for beauty.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington