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Webster 1913 Edition
Gite
Gite
(jīt)
, Noun.
A gown.
[Obs.]
She came often in a
gite
of red. Chaucer.
Definition 2024
gite
gite
English
Noun
gite (plural gites)
- Alternative form of gîte
Etymology 2
Noun
gite (plural gites)
- (obsolete) A gown.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, liv:
- When Phœbus rose, he left his golden weed, / And don'd a gite in deepest purple dy'd.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, liv:
French
Pronunciation
Verb
gite
- first-person singular present indicative of giter
- third-person singular present indicative of giter
- first-person singular present subjunctive of giter
- third-person singular present subjunctive of giter
- second-person singular imperative of giter