Kirtle definition
A woman's dress or skirt.
noun
A knee-length tunic.
noun
A man's knee-length tunic or coat.
noun
A woman's dress or skirt.
noun
A man's tunic or coat.
noun
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Noun
Singular:
kirtle
Plural:
kirtlesOrigin of kirtle
- Middle English kirtel from Old English cyrtel probably ultimately from Latin curtus short sker-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Cognate with Old Norse kyrtill (whence Danish kjortel and Icelandic kyrtill). Compare German Kittel.
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