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Dirndl

//ˈdɜːndl̩// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    a dress with a tight bodice and full skirt wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    a full skirt with a gathered waistband wordnet

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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