gertrude
noun
a slip or underdress for infants.
gertrude
1 American
[gur-trood]
/ ˈgɜr trud /
noun
Gertrude
2
American
[gur-trood]
/ ˈgɜr trud /
noun
Etymology
Origin of gertrude
1925–30, special use of Gertrude
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The novelist Christopher Isherwood had a modest inheritance; Gertrude Stein a larger one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Eliot, Gertrude Stein and others, most famously serializing James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” a decision that made her a target of censors and conservatives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
Eliot and Gertrude Stein, now contemplating the 1920s crossword craze, now skipping to its 2020s COVID-prompted renaissance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
“I thought Nate’s Gertrude boat and Jonah’s motorcycle were a little over the top, but theirs are nothing compared to some of these.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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