pourpoint, purpoint, n.1 Obs. exc. Hist.
(ˈpʊəpɔɪnt, ˈpɜːpɔɪnt)
Forms: 4 purpont, 5 -peynt(e, -poynt, 9 pour-, purpoint.
[a. OF. po(u)rpoint (13th c. in Littré), prop. pa. pple., as in gambais porpoint, cuilte purpointe (Godef.), of pourpoindre to perforate, f. pour- (:—L. prō-, substituted for par:—L. per through, as in pourallee) + poindre:—L. pungĕre to prick.]
Something quilted. a. A doublet, stuffed and quilted, worn by men in the 14th and 15th centuries, both as part of civil costume and of armour.
(Sometimes misused by modern novelists.)
| [a 1200 Itin. Regis Rich. I (Rolls) I. 99 Unde et vulgo perpunctum [v.r. parpunctum] nuncupatur. 1225 Rot. Litt. Claus. (1844) II. 51/1 Quos posuerunt in x. hauber⁓gellis et xiiij. purpuntis et xix. capellis ferreis.] 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 7232 In thy diffence..Next thy body shal be set A purpoynt or a doublet. c 1430 ― Min. Poems 245 Now smothe, now stark, now lyk an hard purpoynt. |
| 1830 James Darnley xxxii, His dress was a rich hunting suit,..consisting of a green pourpoint. 1843 ― Forest Days II. xi, A man..muffled in a large loose gabardine above his pourpoint. 1876 J. R. Planché Cycl. Costume I. 403 The military pourpoint was of leather or cloth, stuffed and quilted. |
† b. A quilt, as a bed-covering. Also in
Comb. pourpoint-wise adv. Obs.| 1390 Will of Fillioll (Somerset Ho.), j purpont album bonum. 1418 Bury Wills (Camden) 4 Item Amye Irmonger j. magnam archam j. purpeynt et j. par librarum pendentium. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 417/1 Pur-poynt, bed hyllynge.., culcitra punctata. 1459 Paston Lett. I. 483 In primis, j. feddebedde. Item, j. bolster. .. j. purpoynt white hangyd. |
So
ˈpourpoint v. trans., to make in the fashion of a pourpoint, to quilt (whence
ˈpourpointed ppl. a.,
ˈpourpointing vbl. n.; also
ˈpourpointer, a maker of pourpoints);
‖ pourpointerie (
purpwɛ̃tri) [F.], pourpointing work, quilting.
| [1834 Penny Cycl. II. 370/1 Henry III's great seals afford us the earliest specimen of the ouvrages de pourpointerie, which came more into fashion toward the latter part of his reign. His hauberk and chausses are of this padded work, stitched.] Ibid., Pourpointing, or elaborate stitching,..became at this time [Henry III's] a trade, and there were several pourpointers in Paris and London. 1860 J. Hewitt Anc. Armour II. 131 The ‘Jack of Defence’.. was a quilted coat; or it was pourpointed of leather and canvas in many folds; or it was formed of mail. 1869 Boutell Arms & Arm. x. (1874) 194 Third Period, to about 1360.—Splinted armour..showing studs on the covering, together with studded pourpointerie, began to prevail. 1885 Fairholt Costume in Eng. (ed. 3) 147 The heat and heaviness of this armour occasioned the invention of gamboised or pourpointed coverings for protection in war. |