KILT

kilt

(noun) a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men as part of the traditional dress in the Highlands of northern Scotland

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

kilt (third-person singular simple present kilts, present participle kilting, simple past and past participle kilted)

To gather up (skirts) around the body. [from 14th c.]

Noun

kilt (plural kilts)

A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern. [from 18th c.]

(historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid

A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA.

A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.

Synonyms

• filibeg, philibeg

Etymology 2

Verb

kilt

(obsolete or African-American Vernacular) Nonstandard form of killed: simple past tense and past participle of kill.

Anagrams

• lik't

Source: Wiktionary


Kilt (,

Definition: p. p. from Kill. [Obs.] Spenser.

Kilt, n. Etym: [OGael. cealt clothes, or rather perh. fr. Dan. kilte op to truss, tie up, tuck up.]

Definition: A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg. [Written also kelt.]

Kilt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Kilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Kilting.]

Definition: To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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