Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
kirtle .
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Examples
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At the word a hundred horsemen, Sidney in the midst, with lance in hand and curtel-axe at saddle-bow, spurred to the charge.
Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912
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And all the veins are made of one curtel, and not of two, as the arteries and wosen.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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Milan or no Milan, if my curtel axe do but ring against that morion of thine it will be an ill day for thy father's son. '
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Milan or no Milan, if my curtel axe do but ring against that morion of thine it will be an ill day for thy father's son. '
The Captain of the Polestar Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Russell laid about him with his curtel-axe to such purpose that the
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Russell laid about him with his curtel-axe to such purpose that the
History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Russell laid about him with his curtel-axe to such purpose that the
History of the United Netherlands, 1586c John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Russell laid about him with his curtel-axe to such purpose that the
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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