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
18 June 2025
(noun) large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
