Obs. rare. Also 6 -ette. [app. corrupted from OF. journade ‘habillement de dessus, sorte de casaque … servant aux hommes et aux femmes’ (Godef.); ad. Prov. jornada, the corresp. OF. being jornée: see prec.] A kind of cassock or cloak formerly worn by both sexes; ‘a loose travelling cloak’ (Fairholt); in 15–16th century worn by men over armor.
1502. Will of Walsh, in Fairholt, Costume (1885), II. Gloss. 262. Gown doublett, jacket salett, and iornett with bullions.
1539. Wriothesley, Chron. (Camden), I. 95. The constables in jornets of white satten.
1598. Stow, Surv., 75. In bright harnesse, some ouergilte, and euery one a Iornet of Scarlet thereupon.
