Example Sentences

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It made her more coy and more a prude than she had ever need to be had she gone among them kirtled and coifed.

From The Forest Lovers by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Around this spot were assembled a band of kirtled Greeks, provided with ropes, ladders, and flambeaux.

From Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 by Auldjo, John

A wimple on her head, and kirtled short, She hangs the snow-white linen in the wind, A heavenly earthliness.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

These attracted me violently, and here for the first time I gazed on Apollo with his proud gesture, Venus in her undulations, the kirtled shape of Diana, and Jupiter voluminously bearded.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund