kirtle
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Cognate with Old Norse kyrtill (whence Danish kjortel and Icelandic kyrtill). Compare German Kittel.
Noun [edit]
kirtle (plural kirtles)
- A knee-length tunic.
- 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Quadroon Girl”:
- 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.
- 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Quadroon Girl”:
Translations [edit]
knee-length tunic
