- a man's tunic or coat
- a woman's dress or skirt
Origin of kirtle
Middle English kirtel from Old English cyrtel (akin to Old Norse kyrtill) from Germanic an unverified form kurt-, short ( from Classical Latin curtus: see curt) + -el, diminutive suffixkirtle
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kirtle
noun
Archaic- A man's knee-length tunic or coat.
- A woman's dress or skirt.
Origin of kirtle
Middle English kirtel from Old English cyrtel probably ultimately from Latin curtus short ; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural kirtles)
- A knee-length tunic.
Origin
Cognate with Old Norse kyrtill (whence Danish kjortel and Icelandic kyrtill). Compare German Kittel.
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