kilt

IPA: kˈɪɫt

noun

  • 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.
  • (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 wraparound, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also worn by boys in the 19th-century United States.
  • 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.

verb

  • To gather up (skirts) around the body.
  • (obsolete or colloquial, especially Ireland or African-American Vernacular) Nonstandard form of killed: simple past and past participle of kill.
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Examples of "kilt" in Sentences

  • He proudly wore his family's tartan kilt to the annual Highland Games
  • The Scottish dancer twirled gracefully in her flowing kilt
  • The wind caught the hem of his kilt, revealing a flash of plaid beneath
  • His kilt-clad grandfather regaled us with tales of Celtic warriors and ancient traditions
  • The wedding party looked stunning in their matching kilts and traditional garb

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