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kirtle

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈkəːt(ə)l/Part of speech nounSorted eiklrtStarts with KEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a long dress worn by women

Word origin

From Middle English kirtel, from Old English cyrtel, cognate with Old Norse kyrtill (“tunic”) (whence Icelandic kyrtill, Danish kjortel (“gown, tunic”), Swedish kjortel (“petticoat, skirt”)), from Old Norse *kurtil-, supposedly a diminutive of *kurt-, from Latin curtus (“short, shortened”). Compare German Kittel.

Used in a sentence

  • All in a kirtle of diſcolourd ſay / He clothed was, ypaynted full of eies; / And in his boſome ſecretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall ſting implyes.
  • Many of the church dignitaries are distinguishable by peculiarities of dress, as the shovel hat and kirtle.
  • Her eyes were large, and full of light, / Her arms and neck were bare; / No garment she wore save a kirtle bright, / And her own long, raven hair.

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