Now only Sc. and north. dial. (exc. as Fr.). Forms: 3 iuype, 4 ioupe, 5 iowpe, 7 juipe, joope, 9 joup, juip, jupe. [f. F. jupe, in OF. also jube, gipe (see GIPE) = Prov. jupa, Sp. and Pg. (with Arabic article) aljuba; also OF. juppe (see JUP), jubbe (see JUB), gippe = It. giuppa, giubba, a. Arab. jubbah, jibbah JUBBAH. Derivative forms are GIPEL, GIPON, GIPPO, and JUPON. For the treatment of the vowel in ME., cf. the forms of duke, flute, and juice.]
† 1. A loose jacket, kirtle or tunic worn by men. Obs. (In later use chiefly Sc.)
c. 1290. S. Eng. Leg., I. 455/215. Þe bischop eode into þe vestiarie: is cope he gan of strepe, he nadde under is vestimenz to habbe on bote is Iuype.
c. 1300. Havelok, 1767. Also he seten, and sholde soupe, So comes a ladde in a ioupe.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 265/2. Iowpe, garment.
1635. Brereton, Trav. (Chetham Soc.), 188. Speech in Scotland … for a man’s coat, a juipe or joope.
1802. J. Sibbald, Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss., Jupe, a wide or great coat.
1823. Carlyle, Lett., in Froude, Life (1882), I. xii. 203. I put on my gray duffle sitting jupe. Ibid. (1837), Fr. Rev., I. II. ii. Frightful men … clad in jupes of coarse woollen, with … girdles of leather.
2. Sc. A woman’s jacket, kirtle or bodice. Also pl. a kind of bodice or stays.
a. 1810. in Cromek, Rem. Nithsdale Song, 64. I pat on my jupes sae green, An’ kilted my coaties rarely.
1822. Galt, Steam-boat, xvii. 356. The branch of a bramble bush caught her by the jupe.
1858. E. B. Ramsay, Remin., Ser. I. (1860), 261. A bedgown, or loose female upper garment, is still in many parts of Scotland termed a jupe.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 138. The married women usually wear a jupe, in shape, behind, recalling the old swallow-tailed coat of Europe.
ǁ 3. [mod. borrowing from Fr.] A woman’s skirt.
1825. R. P. Ward, Tremaine, III. iii. 18. This little French girl … was dressed so piquantely in a jacket and short jupe.
1851. Harper’s Mag., II. 288/1. The Morning Costume is a jupe of blue silk.
1883. Burton & Cameron, Gold Coast, I. iii. 57. Votaries prostrating themselves before a dark dwarf ‘Lady’ with jewelled head and spangled jupe.
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 10 July, 10/2. The Princess of Wales wore a corsage of white and silver brocade over a jupe of poult de soie.
