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
- Archie's kilt is a bit draughty.
- The great kilt was a piece of cloth.
- Proscription and revival of the kilt.
- It usually matches the tartan of the kilt.
- It is analogous to the kilt worn in Scotland.
- The nationalism of the kilt is relatively recent.
- Dress a woman with a kilt, and no one will notice.
- The uniform consists of a plaid kilt and a sweater.
- It was also the precursor of the modern tailored kilt.
- Hi, i noticed your edits to the kilt and history of the kilt articles.
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