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Webster 1913 Edition
Kirtle
Kir′tle
,Noun.
[OE.
kirtel
, curtel
, AS. cyrtel
; skin to Icel. kyrtill
, Sw. kjortel
, Dan. kiortel
, kiole
.] A garment varying in form and use at different times, and worn both by men and women.
Wearing her Norman car, and her
kirtle
of blue. Longfellow.
☞ The term is still retained in the provinces, in the sense of “an outer petticoat.”
Halliwell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Kirtle
KIR'TLE
,Noun.
1.
An upper garment; a gown; a petticoat; a short jacket; a mantle.2.
A quantity of flax, about a hundred pounds.[I know not that this word is used in America.]
Definition 2024
kirtle
kirtle
English
Noun
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”: