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)
- 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 673434718; 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 731591991, lines 252–257, pages 170–172:
- 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 22697011, (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 458004258, 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 48539436, 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.
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Verb
kirtled
- simple past tense and past participle of kirtle