Meaning of gîte | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A French holiday home, or a rented tourist cottage.
2. A gown.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Whan she doth her aray / And gyrdeth in her gytes : / Stytched and pranked wyth pletes.”

“Thy brodred gyte makes thee a gallant gyrle.”

“Done is thy pride, dim is thy glorious gite, / Slaine is thy prince in this unhappy fight.”

“How suddenly declineth David's pride! / As doth the daylight settle in the west, / So dim is David's glory and his gite. / Die, David; for to thee is left no seed.”

“When Phœbus rose, he left his golden weed,”

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