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  • gertrude
    gertrude
    noun
    a slip or underdress for infants.
  • Gertrude
    Gertrude
    noun
    a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “spear” and “strength.”

gertrude

1 American  
[gur-trood] / ˈgɜr trud /

noun

  1. a slip or underdress for infants.


Gertrude 2 American  
[gur-trood] / ˈgɜr trud /

noun

  1. a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “spear” and “strength.”


Etymology

Origin of gertrude

1925–30, special use of Gertrude

Example Sentences

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And one of his largest cubist scenes of a “Man with a Guitar” from 1913 that once belonged to writer Gertrude Stein sold for $41 million.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

In 1988, he and his second wife, Alice Yelen Gitter, discovered Sister Gertrude Morgan, a self-taught artist and Christian street preacher whose paintings sometimes interpreted the Bible’s Book of Revelation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

I wonder what Marcellus, and Queen Gertrude for that matter, would say about AI?

From Barron's • Oct. 28, 2025

David Baltimore was born March 7, 1938, in New York City, the son of a garment industry merchant, Richard Baltimore, and Gertrude Lipschitz-Baltimore.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

Gertrude rose to fetch a small book from a high shelf and returned to a cushioned settee, motioning for me to sit at her feet.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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