gite

Etymology 1

noun

  1. Alternative form of gîte

Etymology 2

Unclear; perhaps related to Old French guite.

noun

  1. (obsolete) A gown.
    Whan she doth her aray / And gyrdeth in her gytes : / Stytched and pranked wyth pletes. a. 1529, John Skelton, The Tunning of Elynour Rummyng, section 68
    Thy brodred gyte makes thee a gallant gyrle. 1567, Turberville, Epithets & Sonnets (1837), 295
    Done is thy pride, dim is thy glorious gite, / Slaine is thy prince in this unhappy fight. 1589, George Peele, Tale Troy, 558/1
    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. a. 1597, George Peele, David & Bethsabe, II, iii
    When Phœbus rose, he left his golden weed, 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, liv

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