kirtle

A man’s knee-length tunic or coat.

A woman’s dress or skirt.

To dispose in the manner of a kirtle.

A quantity of flax, about 100 pounds.

In former use, a garment of which the form and purpose varied at different times.

A tunic or undergarment; a shirt.

A close-fitting gown for women, which sometimes was called a long kirtle and had a train.

A garment like a doublet for men.

A cloak.

A monk’s gown. Coat and kirtle are mentioned together in the middle of the seventeenth century as forming a woman’s costume: as, a tawny camlet coat and kirtle cost £10 17s. In this case kirtle is evidently the petticoat, or the garment worn under the coat. See half-kirtle, aud full kirtle, below.