kirtle
noun
a woman's loose gown, worn in the Middle Ages.
kirtled
-
a word derived from
kirtle.
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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
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 Alfred Austin
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 Edmund Gosse
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 John Auldjo
