kirtle

Example Sentences

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I pulled out kirtles, caps, and bodices, the gilded prayer book and a cracked looking glass Gertrude had given me.

From Literature

“No matter. They will horse Bore again in a minute. Here he is, coming to the Queen. Oh, look! He has brought her a kirtle and a gown.”

From Literature

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