kirtle英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A knee-length tunic.

— All in a kirtle of diſcolourd ſay / He clothed was, ypaynted full of eies; / And in his boſome ſecretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall ſting implyes.
A short jacket.

— KIRTLE, […] a Sort of ſhort Jacket.
A woman's gown; a woman's outer petticoat or skirt.

— Per[igot] VVell decked in a frocke of gray, / Wil[ly] hey ho, gray is greet, / Per. And in a kirtle of green ſay, / [Wil.] the greene is for maydens meet.

动词 v.

To clothe or cover with, or as if with, a kirtle; to hitch up (a long garment) to the length of a kirtle. transitive

— Eastward the Night / Climbs slow with hooded brows, and languid Day / Kirtles her robe fantastical, and leans / To take the embrace of darkness.

词形变化

kirtles plural kirtles present,singular,third-person kirtling participle,present kirtled participle,past kirtled past

词汇关系

衍生词

half-kirtle

词源

词源 1

From Middle English kirtel, from Old English cyrtel, cognate with Old Norse kyrtill (“tunic”) (whence Icelandic kyrtill, Danish kjortel (“gown, tunic”), Swedish kjortel (“petticoat, skirt”)), from Old Norse *kurtil-, supposedly a diminutive of *kurt-, from Latin curtus (“short, shortened”). Compare German Kittel.

词源 2

From Middle English kirtel, from Old English cyrtel, cognate with Old Norse kyrtill (“tunic”) (whence Icelandic kyrtill, Danish kjortel (“gown, tunic”), Swedish kjortel (“petticoat, skirt”)), from Old Norse *kurtil-, supposedly a diminutive of *kurt-, from Latin curtus (“short, shortened”). Compare German Kittel.