courtepy
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English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Dutch kort (“short”) + pije (“a coarse cloth”).
Noun
courtepy (plural courtepies)
- (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.
- 1905–06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
Noun
courtepy
- courtepy: a short coat of coarse cloth
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, , →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, , : [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes , 1542, →OCLC:
- Ful threedbaare was his overeste courtepy
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