jupe Now only Sc. and north. dial. (exc. as F.).
(dʒuːp, F. ʒyp)
Forms: 3 iuype, 4 ioupe, 5 iowpe, 7 juipe, joope, 9 joup, juip, jupe.
[a. F. jupe, in OF. also jube, gipe (see gipe) = Prov. jupa, Sp. and Pg. (with Arabic article) aljuba; also OF. juppe (see jup), jubbe (see jub), gippe = It. giuppa, giubba, a. Arab. jubbah, jibbah jubbah. Derivative forms are gipel, gipon, gippo1, and jupon. For the treatment of the vowel in ME., cf. the forms of duke, flute, and juice.]
† 1. A loose jacket, kirtle, or tunic worn by men. Obs. (In later use chiefly Sc.)
| c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 455/215 Þe bischop eode into þe vestiarie: is cope he gan of strepe, he nadde under is vestimenz to habbe on bote is Iuype. c 1300 Havelok 1767 Also he seten, and sholde soupe, So comes a ladde in a ioupe. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 265/2 Iowpe, garment. 1635 Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 188 Speech in Scotland..for a man's coat, a juipe or joope. 1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss., Jupe, a wide or great coat. 1823 Carlyle Let. in Froude Life (1882) I. xii. 203, I put on my gray duffle sitting jupe. 1837 ― Fr. Rev. I. ii. ii, Frightful men..clad in jupes of coarse woollen, with..girdles of leather. |
2. Sc. A woman's jacket, kirtle, or bodice. Also pl. a kind of bodice or stays.
| a 1810 in Cromek Rem. Nithsdale Song 64, I pat on my jupes sae green, An' kilted my coaties rarely. 1822 Galt Steam-Boat xvii. 356 The branch of a bramble bush caught her by the jupe. 1858 Ramsay Remin. Ser. i. (1860) 261 A bedgown, or loose female upper garment, is still in many parts of Scotland termed a jupe. 1859 R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 138 The married women usually wear a jupe, in shape, behind, recalling the old swallow-tailed coat of Europe. |
‖ 3. [mod. borrowing from Fr.] A woman's skirt.
| 1825 R. P. Ward Tremaine III. iii. 18 This little French girl..was dressed so piquantely in a jacket and short jupe. 1851 Harper's Mag. II. 288/1 The Morning Costume is a jupe of blue silk. 1883 Burton & Cameron Gold Coast I. iii. 57 Votaries prostrating themselves before a dark dwarf ‘Lady’ with jewelled head and spangled jupe. 1886 Pall Mall G. 10 July 10/2 The Princess of Wales wore a corsage of white and silver brocade over a jupe of poult de soie. |