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† ˈcourtepy Obs.
Forms: 4–5 courtepy, -by, kourtepy, courtpy, curt(e)by, -py, 5 cowrt(e)by, (cowrbe, 6 courtby, 7–9 courtpie, cote-a-pye).
[app. a. MDu. korte pîe, i.e. korte short + pîe, coat of coarse woollen stuff, now pij: cf. pea-coat, -jacket.]
A short coat, cloak, or tabard of coarse material worn in the 14th and 15th centuries.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 63 A kertil & a courtepy [B. v. 80 kourteby, curteby, curtepy]. 1377Ibid. B. vi. 191 An heep of heremites..ketten here copes, and courtpies [v.r. curtepies, curtbyes, curtebies] hem made, And wenten as werke⁓men with spades and with schoueles. c1386Chaucer Prol. 290 A Clerk ther was of Oxenford..Ful thredbare was his ouerest courtepy [Lansd. courteby]. ― Friar's T. 82 A gay yeman..He hadde vp-on a courtepy of grene [Petw. courtepie, Lansd. courteby]. a1400― Rom. Rose 220 She was clad ful porely, Al in an old torn courtepy. 1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 655 Hoc epitogium, a cowrteby. 1483Cath. Angl. 79/2 A Cowrbe [v.r. Cowrtby], renale, emitogium. [1605Camden Rem. (1657) 196 They had also about this time [Rich. II]..a short gabbardin called a court-pie. 1843Lytton Last Bar. i. v, Going out in that old courtpie and wimple—you a knight's grandchild. Ibid. iii. ii.] |