kirtle

IPA: kˈɝtʌɫ

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

Examples of "kirtle" in Sentences

[356-8] The kirtle was a dress-skirt or outer petticoat.
Around his waist was a kind of kirtle, the skin of some animal.
He made short work of her kirtle, baring her body to his greedy gaze.
She shrugged from it, then stepped from her kirtle, leaving her garbed in only her blouse.
Before that, any colour would do and a wedding was a good excuse to get yourself a new kirtle.
"A message for Jane Boleyn, the Viscountess Rochford?" he will ask, looking at my plain kirtle and the dust on the hem of my gown, my hand stained with dirt from the London milestone. next »
She removed her swords and cloak, revealing her strange garments—an armored vest of stiffened leather over a fine linen blouse and a kirtle so short that her thighs were visible above her high boots.
"Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands" includes over 50 illuminated medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, as well as printed books, and will tell you what a gipser and kirtle were.