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UK
/kˈɜːtəl/
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NOUN
- a long dress worn by women
- a garment resembling a tunic that was worn by men in the Middle Ages
How To Use kirtle In A Sentence
- He hath a daughter too, who once sought to mar our trade with her gittern; a daughter, then in a kirtle that I would not have nimmed from a hedge, but whom I last saw in sarcenet and lawn, with a great lord for her fere. The Last of the Barons — Volume 09
- She felt warm in her underdress of woollen kirtle and green cord-bound gown. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
- Along with a bit of unclassifiably weird, in David Barr Kirtley's case. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Dragon Done It - Eric Flint and Mike Resnick
- So the Fair Maid of Perth laid aside the splendid hawking glove which she was embroidering for the Lady Drummond, and putting on her holyday kirtle, prepared to attend her father to the Blackfriars monastery, which was adjacent to Couvrefew Street in which they lived. The Fair Maid of Perth
- A 'knight' is a Christian artifact from a Christian culture just as much as a 'Kirtle Friar' is. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
- Shakspearian, who could step from the musings of Windsor and the beautiful heroine, all romance and ethereal splendour, to the lasses in their gay kirtles, and Hob and Raaf with their rustic "daffing," as true to the life as the Ayrshire clowns of Burns, and all the clumsy yet genial gambols of the village festival. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
- Ill tell thee what, thou thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this, you blue-bottle rogue! you filthy famished correctioner! if you be not swinged, Ill forswear half-kirtles. Act V. Scene IV. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
- He made short work of her kirtle, baring her body to his greedy gaze. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
- She shrugged from it, then stepped from her kirtle, leaving her garbed in only her blouse. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
- Very striking, the balance between the simple solid color of the kirtle and the elegant trim.
