Kirtle
Kirtle , noun
[Old English kirtel, curtel, Anglo-Saxon cyrtel; skin to Icelandic kyrtill, Swedish kjortel, Danish kiortel, kiole.]
A garment varying in form and use at different times, and worn both by men and women.
Wearing her Norman car, and her kirtle of blue.
The term is still retained in the provinces, in the sense of “an outer petticoat.”