Definition of "jupon" []

• A close-fitting sleeveless jacket, descending below the hips, worn over armour. (noun)
• A petticoat. (noun)

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• "These gave place, about the middle of the fourteenth century, to a tight-fitting TWELFTH TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURIES 5 sleeveless garment called a jupon, which covered the body to about mid-thigh."
• "He was clad in silk and velvet, with the royal lions of Aquilonia worked in gold upon his rich jupon, and the crown of Aquilonia shone on his square-cut black mane; but the great sword at his side seemed more natural to him than the regal accoutrements."
• "Under his silken jupon with its gilt-braided skirts and jagged sleeves, glimmered burnished steel."