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▪ I. † gite1, gide Obs.
Forms: α. 4–6 gyte, 5–7 gite, 7 git. β. 5 gide, gyde, (guyde).
[app. a. OF. guite, some article of clothing (according to Godef., a hat).]
A kind of dress or gown.
αc1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 34 She cam after in a gyte of reed. c1450Henryson Test. Cres. 260 (Thynne) Hir gyte was gray, and full of spottis blak. a1529Skelton El. Rummyng 68 Whan she doth her aray And gyrdeth in her gytes: Stytched and pranked wyth pletes. 1567Turberv. Epit. & Sonn. (1837) 295 Thy brodred gyte makes thee a gallant gyrle. 1600Fairfax Tasso xiii. liv. 245 Phœbus..left his golden weed, And dond a gite in deepest purple dide. 1614Camden Rem. 234 They had also about this time a kinde of Gowne called a Git.
β13..Minor Poems of Vernon MS. xxxvii. 281 Þis wymmen þat muchel haunteþ pride..Heore reuersede gydes on hem are streyt drawe. c1420Anturs of Arth. 366 Here gide was glorious and gay, of a gresse green. c1470Henry Wallace i. 213 Likle he was, richt byge and weyle besyne, In till a gyde of gudly ganand greyne. a1500Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) II. 187 Fie on pearles! fie on pride! Fye on gowne! fye on guyde.
¶ Used by Peele for: Splendour, magnificence.
1589Peele Tale Troy Wks. (Rtldg.) 558/1 Done is thy pride, dim is thy glorious gite, Slain is thy prince in this unhappy fight. a1597― David & Bethsabe ii. iii, So dim is David's glory and his gite.
▪ II. ‖ gite2|ʒiːt|
Also gîte.
[F. gîte (OF. giste: see gist n.1), vbl. n. related to gésir to lie.]
1. a. A stopping-place, lodging.
1798C. Smith Young Philos. IV. 37 Would I had any pretensions to so happy a gite! 1809Scott Fam. Lett. (1894) I. 140 This small farm..will..furnish a better gîte than any of the Inns on the road. 1841James Brigand xii, The village was too small to have a regular inn, or gîte.
b. In France (and French-speaking countries): a furnished or self-catering holiday home, usu. in a rural district.
1964G. B. Schaller Year of Gorilla (1965) v. 97 At night we stayed at one of the many rest-houses, or gîtes, which lie scattered over the country [sc. the Congo.] The gîtes are simple houses, sparsely furnished with a bedstead, a table, and some chairs. 1971Daily Tel. 20 Mar. 12 Almost nestling under the shadow of the Puy-de-Dome, our gîte had probably been an old farmhouse. Now it was converted into two flats. 1984Listener 16 Aug. 15/2 Holidays are taken in the Dordogne, on remote Greek islands, in rural gites and in distant Kashmir. 1987Sun 21 Feb. 19/1 The trend started when the French opened up their government-assisted self-catering gites to Britons.
2. The place where a fish lies. rare.
1854Badham Halieut. 41 The gîtes of fish are very various, some lying on a bed of sand, some ambushed in mud [etc.].
▪ III. † gite3 Obs. rare—1.
[a. OF. giet, jet, etc.; cf. get n.2 and jess.]
A strap (of a shield).
c1440Partonope 2241 He vndide the gyte of hys Sheelde And from hym cast hit into the feelde.
▪ IV. gite, gîte
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