kirtled
Syllables: kir·tledUK/ˈkəːt(ə)ld/US/ˈkɚt(ə)ld/
kirtled adjective: clothed or covered with, or as if with, a kirtle. Also the simple past and past participle of kirtle.
Adjective
kirtled (not comparable)
- Clothed or covered with, or as if with, a kirtle.
- 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; […]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... - And bounding hand in hand, man link'd to man,
Yelling their uncouth dirge, long daunced the kirtled clan1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by...
- I have oft heard
Also used as
kirtled is also the simple past and past participle of kirtle.
Origin of kirtled
From kirtle + -ed.
Words formed from kirtled
Questions about kirtled
- What does kirtled mean?
- Kirtled means clothed or covered with, or as if with, a kirtle.
- What part of speech is kirtled?
- Kirtled is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce kirtled?
- Kirtled is pronounced /ˈkəːt(ə)ld/ (UK).
Words near kirtled in the dictionary
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