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A long dress worn by women
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kirtle
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Word definitions for kirtle in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kirtle \Kir"tle\, n. [OE. kirtel, curtel, AS. cyrtel; skin to Icel. kyrtill, Sw. kjortel, Dan. kiortel, kiole.] A garment varying in form and use at different times, and worn both by men and women. Wearing her Norman car, and her kirtle of blue. --Longfellow. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A knee-length tunic.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a garment resembling a tunic that was worn by men in the Middle Ages a long dress worn by women
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A kirtle (sometimes called cotte , cotehardie) is a garment worn by men and women in the Middle Ages or, later, a one-piece garment worn by women from the later Middle Ages into the Baroque period. The kirtle was typically worn over a chemise or smock which ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a man's tunic; a woman's skirt," Old English cyrtel , related to Old Norse kyrtill "tunic;" both regarded as probably from Latin curtus "short" (see curt ) + diminutive suffix -el .
Usage examples of kirtle.
She wore a gown of purple camlet, worked cunningly with a pattern of gold thread, with a kirtle of armazine to fall from the veriest hint of a farthingale.
There was a foul yellow stain down the side of her blue kirtle where the bubo under her arm had split and run.
The princess Carramaena was coming down, wearing a dark blue dress kirtled with a simple sash of cloth of gold, since the Westfolk never marked their clans with plaids as Deverry people did.
That particular day, she was wearing a dress of red Bardek silk, kirtled in with the red, white, and brown plaid of the Clw Coc clan.
All were in full costume, kirtled and tabarded miniatures of their elders, and even the very youngest among them spoke the League talk as fluently as the adults, and more naturally.
She was wearing a white linen dress, kirtled with the green, silver, and blue plaid of the Maelwaedds, but thrown over the chair behind her was the red, brown, and white plaid of the Clw Coc, the symbol of the tierynrhyn.
Hearty merchants wrangled with their customers, apple-cheeked women in kirtles and wimples, or tall men with colorful liripipe hoods.
Susanna fumbled for the key she expected to find tucked into the pouch hidden in a placket in her kirtle.
She reached into the deep placket in her kirtle and withdrew a small object.
She tucked one hand into the placket in her kirtle, to warm her fingers, and encountered in her pouch the apple Catherine had carved for her.
With trembling fingers, Susanna felt for the candle, steel, and flint she always carried in the pouch hidden in the placket of her kirtle.
Glaryd assisted Moreya in drying her long tresses and donning a clean kirtle.
She felt herself moved, her kirtle stripped from her, her gown unlaced and pulled from her body, and she was lying naked on the furs before the fire, struggling for breath through a swollen half-closed throat.
One hand fell to the embroidered forepart that showed through the inverted V of her kirtle and she touched one of the flowers done in silks of murrey, russet, and whey.
This time the doors opened and a lone knight entered first, arrayed entirely in gold armor, who was led into the arena by twelve girls wearing green kirtles with snowdrops in their hair.