different between jacket vs jupon

English

Etymology

From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??æk.?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??æk?t/, /?d??æk?t/
• Rhymes: -æk?t
• Hyphenation: jack?et

Noun

jacket (plural jackets)

1. A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
2. A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
3. A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
4. (slang) A police record.
   • 2014, Inherent Vice, 01:54:00:

     "I need to look up somebody's jacket."

5. (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
6. The tough outer skin of a baked potato.

   Cook the potatoes in their jackets.

Synonyms

• (piece of a person's suit): coat (US)
• (removable protective cover): sleeve

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

jacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing, simple past and past participle jacketed)

1. (transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
   • 1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads

     ...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length.

Derived terms

• bad-jacket
• snitch-jacket

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