Kirtle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Archaic A man's knee-length tunic or coat.
  • n. Archaic A woman's dress or skirt.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A knee-length tunic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A garment varying in form and use at different times, and worn both by men and women.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In former use, a garment of which the form and purpose varied at different times.
  • n. A tunic or undergarment; a shirt.
  • n. A close-fitting gown for women, which sometimes was called a long kirtle and had a train.
  • n. A garment like a doublet for men.
  • n. A cloak.
  • n. A monk's gown. Coat and kirtle are mentioned together in the middle of the seventeenth century as forming a woman's costume: as, a tawny camlet coat and kirtle cost £10 17s. In this case kirtle is evidently the petticoat, or the garment worn under the coat. See half-kirtle, aud full kirtle, below.
  • n. An outer petticoat.
  • n. A coat or layer of plaster.
  • To dispose in the manner of a kirtle.
  • n. A quantity of flax, about 100 pounds.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a garment resembling a tunic that was worn by men in the Middle Ages
  • n. a long dress worn by women
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tunic    frock    dress   
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    surcoat    jerkin    undershirt    tippet    morion    cassock    kerchief    nightshirt    kilt    bodice