kirtle in English
noun
1
a woman's gown or outer petticoat.
The Virgin invariably wears a dark blue gown, sometimes over a minever kirtle with plain undergarment, to stress her high status.
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1. Bondmaids wear the traditional garb of the northern slave called a “kirtle”, which is a full length garment of white wool, split to the belly at the neck and up to the hip on either side of the skirt