An archaic or obscure term, possibly referring to a type of fish, tool, or regional item in historical French or related Romance languages.
Etymology uncertain; possibly derived from French dialectal sources or representing a specialized occupational or regional term.
In medieval and early modern France, specialized craftspeople had hundreds of tool and product names that have completely vanished—'goupin' may be one of the last survivors of a whole lost vocabulary of makers and traders.
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