gertrude

¹

[gur-trood]

noun

1. a slip or underdress for infants.

Gertrude

²

[gur-trood]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of gertrude¹

1925–30, special use of Gertrude

Example Sentences

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

"Floribert Bwana Chui was an intelligent and eloquent child from birth. He was a polite boy who respected us, his parents. I saw a bright future in him. I was expecting him to be a boy who would get married, have a wife and children," his mother Gertrude Kamara Ntawiha told UN-sponsored Radio Okapi last month before travelling to Rome for her son's beatification - which was also attended by Kositi's two younger brothers.

From BBC

Gina Torres’ Gertrude has no such trouble.

From Los Angeles Times

Actress Esmé Church was born in 1893 in London and joined the Old Vic Company in 1927, where she performed major Shakespearean roles including Lady Macbeth and Hamlet's mother Gertrude.

From BBC

O’Hara knew one thing for sure: He wanted Torres to play Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude.

From Los Angeles Times