Donner à quelqu’un un pourpointde pierre = To give any one a stone doublet; To imprison any one.
Pourpoint Mettre un homme en pourpoint = To pull a man’s cloak off; To ruin a man.
I hear he has no horses with him, and he sits down to eat his soup and drink his wine, for which he pays three sous altogether, with a lace upon his pourpoint which cost at the very lowest twenty sous in all.
The pourpoint was very like the hacqueton, only that it was made of finer material, faced with silk, and stitched in ornamental patterns.
The pourpoint was worn over the hauberk, but sometimes it was worn alone, the hauberk being omitted for the sake of lightness.
His pourpointhangs from his shoulders in rags, and more than one long arrow dangles by its barbed point from his shirt of mail.
His pourpoint was barred with gold, and deep fringes of the same precious metal adorned its borders.
Seizing a flagon of foaming Burgundy, the knight of the gold embroidered pourpoint quaffed it to the lovely Joan Du Bois.
They were also of pourpoint as on the arm here illustrated (Fig.
In the earlier part of their history they appeared to have disdained any defence but the shield, but in the time of Charlemagne a simple hauberk of pourpoint was worn, covered more or less with metal plates, and a leathern cap upon the head.
Perhaps the defence most in vogue was of the splinted kind, which consisted of parallel bands of steel arranged in vertical lines and embedded in pourpoint with studs showing, or affixed to cuir-bouilli.
Whether this pourpoint supplemented the chausses of banded mail or was worn in their place is a moot point.
Upon the jupon appearing below the camail are four studs, indicating pourpoint defence.
Occasionally shields are shown covered with leather, or one plate of metal, while others have a surface covered with lozenges, which doubtless represents a kind of pourpoint or quilted material stretched over the framework.
The registers of the Chambre des Comptes mention, about the time of the English queen's visit, a disbursement of twenty sols for the insertion of a pair of new sleeves in an old pourpoint of the king's wearing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pourpoint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
