kirtle

Example Sentences

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The six-piece ensemble — a silk underdress, a velvet drawstring bag and small purse mirror, a coronet, a kirtle and a mantle — will be the main attraction of an exhibit called “Encounters With Royalty.”

From Washington Post

Herb gardens, honeysuckle and kirtles, but also ghostly suspense and fear foreshadowed.

From The Guardian

Also she wears kirtles laced with silk and tiring pins of silver and silver gilt and has made all the nuns wear the like....

From Project Gutenberg

The kirtle and border was far too short for her majesty's height, and she asked every one how they liked her new fancied suit.

From Project Gutenberg

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.

From Project Gutenberg