dirndl
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Definition of dirndl
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A traditional Alpine woman's dress having a tight bodice and full skirt.
“For a change, Selina was not in slacks, but in a simple dirndl and sandals.”
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noun
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A traditional Alpine woman's dress having a tight bodice and full skirt.
“For a change, Selina was not in slacks, but in a simple dirndl and sandals.”
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In full dirndl skirt: a full skirt with a tight waistband resembling one which is part of a traditional Alpine woman's dress.
“On the cover of the leaflet advertising the Alpenrose Gasthof in Zirl am Gurgl […] there is a decorative picture of a young woman. She is wearing Tyrolese costume: the low-cut white bodice with cross-laced velvet waistcoat, the floral apron and dirndl skirt.”
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Etymology
Borrowed from German Dirndl, a diminutive of Dirne (“girl”) (Austria, Bavaria), from Middle High German dierne (“girl; servant”), from Old High German diorna, thiorna (“girl; servant”), from Proto-West Germanic *þewernā (“maiden, young girl; female servant, handmaid”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (“to flow; to run”).
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