kirtle
(noun) a long dress worn by women
kirtle
(noun) a garment resembling a tunic that was worn by men in the Middle Ages
Source: WordNet® 3.1
kirtle (plural kirtles)
A knee-length tunic.
A short jacket.
A woman's gown; a woman's outer petticoat or skirt.
kirtle (third-person singular simple present kirtles, present participle kirtling, simple past and past participle kirtled)
(transitive) To clothe or cover with, or as if with, a kirtle; to hitch up (a long garment) to the length of a kirtle.
(intransitive) Clothed or covered with, or as if with, a kirtle.
• kilter
Source: Wiktionary
Kir"tle, n. Etym: [OE. kirtel, curtel, AS. cyrtel; skin to Icel. kyrtill, Sw. kjortel, Dan. kiortel, kiole.]
Definition: A garment varying in form and use at different times, and worn doth by men and women. Wearing her Norman car, and her kirtle of blue. Longfellow.
Note: The term is still retained in the provinces, in the sense of " an outer petticoat." Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 February 2025
(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
