kirtle

Example Sentences

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"I was going to be eating with fingers on a plate of fresh leaves," she said, handing a bowl to the lady in the scarlet kirtle.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

Dressed in a brown, grease-spotted kirtle, she had a lopsided white linen cap upon her dark and gray-streaked tresses.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

"How much did your mother tell you to take for the goat?" asked the woman in the scarlet kirtle.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

The lady in the scarlet kirtle dropped her wooden bowl onto the ground.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

Clad in a cloud-gray kirtle and a hood as blue as the sky.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton