1
: a dress style with tight bodice, short sleeves, low neck, and gathered skirt
2
: a full skirt with a tight waistband
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And her skirt was usually broadcloth, either a wrap or a dirndl, and also very traditional.
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Jaden Thompson, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
Klum made the dirndl (a traditional German dress) fit for a supermodel by creating the look in patent leather.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2023
Put on your dirndl or lederhosen and pack chairs and sunshades.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
Petite but long-legged, Parker pulled off even Patricia Field’s most iconoclastic costuming choices: a miniskirt with a bunny tail, an Alpine dirndl, a belt wrapped around a bare midriff.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
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Jaden Thompson, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
Klum made the dirndl (a traditional German dress) fit for a supermodel by creating the look in patent leather.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2023
Put on your dirndl or lederhosen and pack chairs and sunshades.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
Petite but long-legged, Parker pulled off even Patricia Field’s most iconoclastic costuming choices: a miniskirt with a bunny tail, an Alpine dirndl, a belt wrapped around a bare midriff.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
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dirndl
noun
: a full skirt with a tight waistband
Etymology
a shortened form of German Dirndlkleid, literally, "girl's dress," from Dirndl "girl" and Kleid "dress"
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