a woman's dress with a close-fitting bodice and full skirt, commonly of colorful and strikingly patterned material, fashioned after Tyrolean peasant wear.
2.
a full, gathered skirt attached to a waistband or hip yoke.
3.
any skirt with gathers at the waistband.
Origin: 1935–40; < G Dirndl, short for Dirndlkleid, equiv. to Dirndl young woman (orig. Bavarian, Austrian dial., dim. of Dirne young woman, MHG dierne, OHG thiorna; akin to thane) + Kleid dress (see cloth)