pourpoint

To stuff and quilt, as a coat of fence.

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A stuffed and quilted garment, as a military coat of fence, stuffed like the gambeson.

noun

A close-fitting garment worn by men in the fourteenth century and later, as distinguished from the doublet, which superseded it.

noun

Representations of it show a smoothly drawn garment, without wrinkles or folds.

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A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.

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A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries.

noun

A doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.