Meaning of pourpoint | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries.
   historical
2. A doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
   historical

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“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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