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, Americanism; special use of Gertrude

Example Sentences

Some scientists called Gertrude’s introduction just an attention-grabbing stunt.

From Science News For Students

[Director] Naomi Foner is the one that told me that Gertrude Stein quote.

From The Daily Beast

But it was Gertrude Bell, who was never a public figure, who had left the greater mark on the Middle East, for better or worse.

From The Daily Beast

So welcome back, Edna and Ethel; come on down, Gertrude and Percy; walk right in, Wilhelmina and Wolfgang.

From The Daily Beast

This Regular version sometimes sounds like the near sequiturs of Gertrude Stein or her clever admirer Donald Barthelme.

From The Daily Beast

Malcolm is fluent in the ruses of modernist fiction (consider her profiles of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Two Lives).

From The Daily Beast

Gertrude had never given him occasion to feel that his guests could have a more efficient hostess than his secretary.

From Project Gutenberg

Then Gertrude quivered slightly, and the blood flushed in her set face and passed as fierce heat passes through iron.

From Project Gutenberg

And the look went from Jane's face, and Brodrick felt annoyed with Gertrude because she had made it go.

From Project Gutenberg

As he was trying to catch the look, Gertrude came and said it was the Baby's tea-time, and carried him away.

From Project Gutenberg

Gertrude approached me, and said in a low tone: 'Did demoiselle remark that we only mounted five steps after leaving the court?'

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