different between armour vs jupon

English

Noun

armour (countable and uncountable, plural armours)

1. British standard spelling of armor.

Verb

armour (third-person singular simple present armours, present participle armouring, simple past and past participle armoured)

1. British standard spelling of armor.

Translations

Middle English

Noun

armour

1. Alternative form of armure

Old French

Noun

armour f (oblique plural armours, nominative singular armour, nominative plural armours)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of armure

English

Alternative forms

• juppon

Etymology

From Middle English jupon, from Middle French jupon.

Noun

jupon (plural jupons)

1. (historical) A close-fitting sleeveless jacket, descending below the hips, worn over armour.
   • 1700, John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, Book III,^[1]

     Some wore coat armour, imitating scale,

     And next their skins were stubborn shirts of mail;

     Some wore a breastplate and a light juppon,

     Their horses clothed with rich caparison;

   • 1983, Jack Vance, Lyonesse, Chapter 26,

     He climbed three marble steps, crossed the terrace and entered a dim foyer, where a chamberlain silently helped him from his helmet, his jupon and his chain cuirass.

2. A petticoat.

Esperanto

Noun

jupon

1. accusative singular of jupo

French

Etymology

From Middle French jupon; equivalent to jupe +? -on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.p??/

Noun

jupon m (plural jupons)

1. petticoat, underskirt
2. (colloquial) a bit of skirt
3. (military) a sleeveless jacket worn over armor (medieval)

Derived terms

• coureur de jupons

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (zubon)
• ? Romanian: jupon

Further reading

• “jupon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• jupoun, gypoun, gipoun, gypon, gepon, jupown, jopon, jepoun

Etymology

From Middle French jupon; equivalent to jupe +? -oun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?iu??po?n/, /?d?iu?po?n/

Noun

jupon

1. A jupon (an overcoat for armour, usually bearing heraldic symbols)

Descendants

• English: jupon
• English: gipoun, gepoun, gypoun, jupon, juppon (obsolete)

References

• “j?p??n, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-16.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French jupon.

Noun

jupon n (plural jupoane)

1. underskirt, petticoat, jupon