kirtle

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A man's knee-length tunic or coat.
• noun A woman's dress or skirt.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To dispose in the manner of a kirtle.
• noun A quantity of flax, about 100 pounds.
• noun In former use, a garment of which the form and purpose varied at different times.
• noun A tunic or undergarment; a shirt.
• noun A close-fitting gown for women, which sometimes was called a long kirtle and had a train.
• noun A garment like a doublet for men.
• noun A cloak.
• noun A monk's gown. Coat and kirtle are mentioned together in the middle of the seventeenth century as forming a woman's costume: as, a tawny camlet coat and kirtle cost £10 17s. In this case kirtle is evidently the petticoat, or the garment worn under the coat. See half-kirtle, aud full kirtle, below.
• noun An outer petticoat.
• noun A coat or layer of plaster.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A garment varying in form and use at different times, and worn both by men and women.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A knee-length tunic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a garment resembling a tunic that was worn by men in the Middle Ages
• noun a long dress worn by women