Definition of "gite"

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

When Phœbus rose, he left his golden weed, And don'd a gite in deepest purple dy'd.

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