How To Use Kirtle In A Sentence
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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
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She felt warm in her underdress of woollen kirtle and green cord-bound gown.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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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
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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
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A 'knight' is a Christian artifact from a Christian culture just as much as a 'Kirtle Friar' is.
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
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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
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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
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He made short work of her kirtle, baring her body to his greedy gaze.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
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She shrugged from it, then stepped from her kirtle, leaving her garbed in only her blouse.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
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Very striking, the balance between the simple solid color of the kirtle and the elegant trim.
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I'll tell you what, you 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, I'll forswear half-kirtles.
The Second Part of King Henry IV
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A message for Jane Boleyn, the Viscountess Rochford?" he will ask, looking at my plain kirtle and the dust on the hem of my gown, my hand stained with dirt from the London milestone. next »
Excerpt: The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
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Men wore hats or caps, a kirtle or knee-length coat, shirt, waistcoat, trousers, woolen stockings, and shoes or high boots.
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Snowdon, and that her wedding-dress should be the green kirtle and wreath of the fairies, and that her bridesmaids should be her Gypsy friends, Sinfi Lovell and Rhona Boswell.
Aylwin
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She felt warm in her underdress of woollen kirtle and green cord-bound gown.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Next Grace donned a beautiful red kirtle made of silk, with a forepart that had a pattern of gold colored roses embroidered on it.
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Around his waist was a kind of kirtle, the skin of some animal.
Ringworld
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Armour; brasses of ladies, with their little dogs at their feet and dresses which show the changes in fashion from century to century and make clear all the mysteries of kirtles and cotte-hardies, wimples and partlets and farthingales and the head-dresses appropriate to each successive mode.
Medieval People
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A 'knight' is a Christian artifact from a Christian culture just as much as a 'Kirtle Friar' is.
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
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The Virgin invariably wears a dark blue gown, sometimes over a minever kirtle with plain undergarment, to stress her high status.
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She removed her swords and cloak, revealing her strange garments—an armored vest of stiffened leather over a fine linen blouse and a kirtle so short that her thighs were visible above her high boots.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
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She felt warm in her underdress of woollen kirtle and green cord-bound gown.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands" includes over 50 illuminated medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, as well as printed books, and will tell you what a gipser and kirtle were.
Don't Miss: June 4-10
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I’ll tell you what, you 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, I’ll forswear half-kirtles.
The second part of King Henry the Fourth
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Kirtley was the most dangerous, swinging the ball considerably, and forcing the batsmen to play.
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The gravy dripped on to the wooden table and on to my lap, the hot grease sinking into the blue cloth of my kirtle.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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Before that, any colour would do and a wedding was a good excuse to get yourself a new kirtle.
Things to plan for next Maerquin
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Their ragged shifts and kirtles, soaked through with the drizzling rain, hung dankly on their emaciated forms.
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In England, kirtles were normally gowns with tight fitting bodices.
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In the meantime Dame Elspeth assisted to disembarrass the damsel whom she destined for her future daughter-inlaw, of her hood, mantle, and the rest of her riding gear, giving her to appear as beseemed the buxom daughter of the wealthy Miller, gay and goodly, in a white kirtle, the seams of which were embroidered with green silken lace or fringe, entwined with some silver thread.
The Monastery
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Moira, a 45-year-old checkout manager at the local Safeway store, admits her husband would not have the same pride wearing a kilt as the kirtle, the ornate and authentic Viking costume.
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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
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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No starched apron-bib is sullied, no long straight gilet is crumpled, no cuff or kirtle torn or buttonless, no bold tricorne hat askew.
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In his search he tossed her torn kirtle on the bed without regard for the damage he had done.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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She sat at the high table, her fine wool kirtle and tunic as blue as her eyes.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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I chose to make the silk kirtle because I found fabric that I wanted to use for this dress.
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The bowmen were dressed in green kirtles, rather shorter than those of the squires, and wore dark woolen hose; they carried their bows and arrows slung across their shoulders.
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This fabric will be the front of the kirtle with the red linen serving as lining and body of dress.
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Then he loosed the glistering belt and kirtle of mail beneath and taslet that the coppersmiths fashioned; and when he saw the wound where the bitter arrow had lighted, he sucked out the blood and cunningly spread thereon soothing drugs, such as Cheiron of his good will had imparted to his sire.
The Iliad
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The bondmaids of Torvaldsland do not wear silks of any kind but kirtles of white wool.
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[356-8] The kirtle was a dress-skirt or outer petticoat.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
