noun
- a woman’s dress with a close-fitting bodice and full skirt, commonly of colorful and strikingly patterned material, fashioned after Tyrolean peasant wear.
- a full, gathered skirt attached to a waistband or hip yoke.
- any skirt with gathers at the waistband.
noun
- a woman’s dress with a full gathered skirt and fitted bodice; originating from Tyrolean peasant wear
- a gathered skirt of this kind
1937, from German dialectal diminutive of dirne “girl” (cf. dirndlkleid “peasant dress”), from a diminutive of Middle High German dierne “maid,” from Old High German thiorna, which is related to Old English þegn (see thane).