Definitions for kirtles

kirtles kir·tle

Spelling: [kur-tl]
IPA: /ˈkɜr tl/

Kirtles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 226 anagrams from letters in kirtles (eiklrst).

Definitions for kirtles

noun

  1. a woman's loose gown, worn in the Middle Ages.
  2. Obsolete. a man's tunic.

Origin of kirtles

before 900; Middle English kirtel, Old English cyrtel, apparently equivalent to cyrt(an) to shorten (≪ Latin curtus shortened) + -el -le

Examples for kirtles

She was richly dressed in a kirtle of vermeil silk, broidered with gold, and her mantle was worth the spoil of a king's castle.

The kirtle or petticoat is in reality a development of the tunic.

She put her hand to her kirtle and gripped the knife at her side.

Having kissed the hem of her kirtle he turned towards the house.

He sheareth a deal from his kirtle meet, To make her sandals for her feet.

And I am weary withal, and this kirtle is light and easy to me.

A kirtle is a gown; Skeat suggests that it is a diminutive of skirt.

When the corslet was unclasped, the arrow had only to be pulled out of the belt and kirtle.

She leaped out without a moment's thought among the rushes, with her kirtle girt up close above her knees.

That evening when they parted he knelt at her feet and kissed the hem of her kirtle.

Word Value for kirtles
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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