courtepy

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Dutch kort (“short”) + pije (“a coarse cloth”).

Noun

courtepy (plural courtepies)

1. (historical) A short coat of coarse cloth.
   • 1905–06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel

     The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “courtepy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Middle English

Etymology

From Dutch kort + pije.

Noun

courtepy

1. courtepy: a short coat of coarse cloth
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Ful threedbaare was his overeste courtepy

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