kirtled

English

Etymology

kirtle +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəːt(ə)ld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɚt(ə)ld/, /-ɾ(ə)ld/
• Hyphenation: kir‧tled

Adjective

kirtled (not comparable)

1. Clothed or covered with, or as if with, a kirtle.
   • 1637, [John Milton], A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: On Michaelmasse Night, before the Right Honorable, Iohn Earle of Bridgewater, Vicount Brackly, Lord Præsident of Wales, and One of His Maiesties Most Honorable Privie Counsell, London: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for Humphrey Robinson, at the signe of the Three Pidgeons in Pauls Church-yard, →OCLC; republished as “Comus, a Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle”, in Thomas Wharton, editor, Poems upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, and Latin, with Translations, by John Milton. Viz. Lycidas, L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Comus, Odes, Sonnets, Miscellanies, English Psalms, Elegiarum Liber, Epigrammatum Liber, Sylvarum Liber. With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and Other Illustrations, by Thomas Wharton, B.D. [...], 2nd edition, London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, 1791, →OCLC, pages 170–172, lines 252–257:

     I have oft heard
     My mother Circe with the Sirens three,
     Amidſt the flowery-kirtled Naiades,
     Culling their potent herbs, and baleful drugs,
     Who, as they ſung, would take the priſon'd ſoul,
     And lap it in Elyſium; […]

   • 1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):

     And bounding hand in hand, man link'd to man,
     Yelling their uncouth dirge, long daunced the kirtled clan

   • 1845, Thomas Cooper, “Book the Fourth”, in The Purgatory of Suicides. A Prison-rhyme. In Ten Books, London: Printed for Jeremiah How, 209, Piccadilly, →OCLC, stanza III, page 128:

     From out that beaming look, to know what thoughts
     Within the barb-leaved hart's-tongue dwell—
     The purple eye petalled with snow, that floats
     So gracefully:—dost think the damosel,
     Young Hope, kirtled with Chastity, there fell
     Into the stream, and grew a flower so fair?

   • 1854, Henry W[hitelock] Torrens, James Hume, “Idle Days in Egypt”, in A Selection from the Writings, Prose and Poetical, of the Late Henry W. Torrens, Esq., B.A., Bengal Civil Service, and of the Inner Temple; with a Biographical Memoir. By James Hume, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law, volume II, Calcutta: R. C. Lepage and Co., British Library; London: R. C. Lepage & Co., Whitefriars St. Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 440:

     […] [W]e had more recently an importation of wild Albanians kirtled to the knee, some eleven hundred of them, the forerunners of larger detachments,—on their way to the Hedjoz on service,—and these things, some folks said, were significant.

Verb

kirtled

1. simple past and past participle of kirtle