noun. A man's knee-length tunic or coat.

noun. A woman's dress or skirt.

To dispose in the manner of a kirtle.

noun. A quantity of flax, about 100 pounds.

noun. In former use, a garment of which the form and purpose varied at different times.

noun. A tunic or undergarment; a shirt.

noun. A close-fitting gown for women, which sometimes was called a long kirtle and had a train.

noun. A garment like a doublet for men.

noun. A cloak.

noun. 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.

noun. An outer petticoat.

noun. A coat or layer of plaster.

noun. A garment varying in form and use at different times, and worn both by men and women.

noun. A knee-length tunic.

noun. a garment resembling a tunic that was worn by men in the Middle Ages

noun. a long dress worn by women

""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 »"

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