Lexicographical Neighbors of Gipon
Literary usage of Gipon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama by Walter Scott (1887)
"Som wol ben armed in an habergeon, And in a brest plate, and in a gipon ; And
som wol have a pair of plates large ; And som wol have a pruse shield, ..."
2. The Crusades by Edward Gibbon, Guillaume Caoursin, Johan Kaye, Walter Scott (1870)
"Som wol ben armed in an habergeon, And in a brest plate, and in a gipon ; And
som wol have a pair of ..."
3. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic by William Hickling Prescott, John Foster Kirk (1890)
"The gipon was part of a man's attire, being, as Mr. Tyrwhitt defines it, "a short
cassock," and was worn under the armour. Thus, Chaucer, in the Prologue to ..."
4. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic by William Hickling Prescott (1839)
"Which his ancient editor thus explains : " gipon de 1'italien ... to his "
Canterbury Tales," says of his knight's dress, " Of fustian he wered a gipon Alii ..."
5. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the by Frederick William Fairholt (1846)
"gipon (Fr.). A tight-fitting vest; "a short cassock" (Todd). ... The knight in
Chaucer's tale appears in a gipon or pourpoint of fustian, stained hy his ..."
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