gipon

He wears, you see, a fustian gipon, which is stained with the rust of his armour.

In the year 1542, but whether under the government of De Gama or De Sousa is uncertain, Antonio de Mota, Francisco Zeymoto, and Antonio Peixoto, while on a voyage to China, were driven by a storm among the islands of Nipongi or Nijon, called Gipon by the Chinese, and known in Europe by the name of Japan.

Which his ancient editor thus explains: "Gipon de i'italien giubone, c'est que nous appellons jupon et jupe; voulant par là taxer ce prince de s'être laissé gouverner par Isabelle, reine de Castille, sa femme, dont il endossoit la jupe, pour ainsi dire, pendant qu'elle portoit les chausses."

Thus Chaucer, in the Prologue to his "Canterbury Tales," says of his knight's dress,   "Of fustian he wered a gipon   Alle besmotred with his habergeon."

Again, in his "Knighte's Tale,"   "Som wol ben armed in an habergeon,   And in a brest-plate, and in a gipon."