Meaning & use
pourpoint
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A close-fitting, padded jacket worn by men in medieval and Renaissance Europe, often under armor.
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The knight wore a quilted pourpoint beneath his plate armor.
Museum curators restored a fourteenth-century silk pourpoint for the exhibit.
A note on using this word
A key garment in medieval fashion history, the pourpoint padded the torso for comfort under armor and later evolved into the doublet.
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doubletjerkin
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