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

Eliot and Gertrude Stein, now contemplating the 1920s crossword craze, now skipping to its 2020s COVID-prompted renaissance.

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Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and their contemporaries produced wildly different books with one thing in common: the belief that writers needed to break with the old.

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“I don’t look like that,” Gertrude Stein is supposed to have said to Picasso when he completed his portrait of her in 1906.

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Virginia depicted herself and her husband Leonard “lying crushed under an immense manuscript of Gertrude Stein’s”—and so, literary modernism’s eccentric pioneer was rejected by its suavest representative.

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Investors could learn from Gertrude, a lady dedicated to self-preservation, in assessing comments from players in the artificial-intelligence drama.

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