kirtle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A knee-length tunic.

   “All in a kirtle of diſcolourd ſay / He clothed was, ypaynted full of eies; / And in his boſome ſecretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall ſting implyes.”

2. isim A short jacket.

   “KIRTLE, […] a Sort of ſhort Jacket.”

3. isim A woman's gown; a woman's outer petticoat or skirt.

   “Per[igot] VVell decked in a frocke of gray, / Wil[ly] hey ho, gray is greet, / Per. And in a kirtle of green ſay, / [Wil.] the greene is for maydens meet.”

4. fiil To clothe or cover with, or as if with, a kirtle; to hitch up (a long garment) to the length of a kirtle.

   “Eastward the Night / Climbs slow with hooded brows, and languid Day / Kirtles her robe fantastical, and leans / To take the embrace of darkness.”