kirtle

Meanings

Noun

• A knee-length tunic.
• A short jacket.
• A woman's gown; a woman's outer petticoat or skirt.

Verb

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

Origin

• From Middle English kirtel, from Old English cyrtel, cognate with Old Norse kyrtill ("tunic") (whence Icelandic kyrtill, Danish kjortel ("gown#Noun"), Swedish kjortel ("[[petticoat, diminutive of *kurt-, from Latin curtus ("[[short#Adjective"). Compare German Kittel.