pourpartyt

See purparty. pourpoint (pör'point), n. [F. pourpoint (OF. pourpoint, purpoint, > ME. purpcynte ) = Pr. per pong, perpoing, perponh = Sp. perpunte = Pg. perpoente, The knight wears a studded pourpoint . J. Hewitt , Ancient Armour, II. 23. 2. A close-fitting garment worn by men in the fourteenth century and later, as distinguished from the doublet, which superseded it. Representations of it show smoothly drawn garment, without wrinkles or folds. IMG:content-0761.png:[graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small] The Jack of Defence... appears to have been of four kinds: it was a quilted coat; or it was pour pointed of leather and canvas in many folds; or it was formed of mail; or of small plates like the brigandine armour. J. Hewitt , Ancient Armour, II. 131. pourpointerie (F. pron. pör-pwań-te-rē ́), n. [F.] Quilted work. The hood is sometimes shewn as made of a cloth-like material (cloth, leather, or pourpointerie ). J. Hewitt , Ancient Armour, I. 237. pour pointing (pör'poin-ting), n. [Verbal n. of pourpoint , v .] Stuffing and quilting, especially of garments of fence, as the gambeson; quilted work. Compare gamboised . pourpointwiset, adv . [ pourpoint + -wise.] By quilting; as if quilted. Item, j cover of white clothe, fyne and well-wrought, purpeynte wyse . Paston Letters , I. 478. pourpret, n. A Middle English form of purple . pour pre sture, n. See purpresture .