English
jupe
Jupe comes from Middle French jupe.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600jupe
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form‘a coat or tunic worn loosely’
- Englishearliest quotation 1936same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600jupe
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form‘a coat or tunic worn loosely’
- Englishearliest quotation 1936same form
Earliest quotation: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway: “[T]he people all wore hosen and shoon and smocks…”
Every English word from Middle French jupe
Today it means
noun A style of skirt.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French jupe / jupe