gite

plural gites

1. alternativeAlternative form of gîte, since French spelling reforms of 1990

plural gites · alternative gyte

1. obsoleteA gown.

   When Phœbus rose, he left his golden weed,

   1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, liv

   4 more examples

   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