kirtle

How To Use kirtle In A Sentence

• He hath a daughter too, who once sought to mar our trade with her gittern; a daughter, then in a kirtle that I would not have nimmed from a hedge, but whom I last saw in sarcenet and lawn, with The Last of the Barons — Complete
• 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. Don't Miss: June 4-10
• I’ll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this, — you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not swinged, I’ll forswear half-kirtles. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
• Kirtley was the most dangerous, swinging the ball considerably, and forcing the batsmen to play.
• The gravy dripped on to the wooden table and on to my lap, the hot grease sinking into the blue cloth of my kirtle. TIME OF THE WOLF
• Before that, any colour would do and a wedding was a good excuse to get yourself a new kirtle. Things to plan for next Maerquin
• Their ragged shifts and kirtles, soaked through with the drizzling rain, hung dankly on their emaciated forms.
• In England, kirtles were normally gowns with tight fitting bodices.
• In the meantime Dame Elspeth assisted to disembarrass the damsel whom she destined for her future daughter-inlaw, of her hood, mantle, and the rest of her riding gear, giving her to appear as beseemed the buxom daughter of the wealthy Miller, gay and goodly, in a white kirtle, the seams of which were embroidered with green silken lace or fringe, entwined with some silver thread. The Monastery
• Moira, a 45-year-old checkout manager at the local Safeway store, admits her husband would not have the same pride wearing a kilt as the kirtle, the ornate and authentic Viking costume.