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Definition of Kilts
1. kilt [v] - See also: kilt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kilts
Literary usage of Kilts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances Between the by Edmund March Blunt (1822)
"kilts (west end) W. by S. southerly. The going through the Narrow-. ... between Nevis
and St. kilts ; keep it on the larboard side or rather keep nigher St. ..."
2. Gunner Jingo's Jubilee by Thomas Bland Strange (1893)
"... AND HIGHLAND kilts—THE CARNIVAL— " RULE BRITANNIA "—" PLUS ROYALISTE QUE LE
Roi "—THE CRIMEA. About the hour of evening gun-fire as Jingo rode across ..."
3. Among the People of British Columbia: Red, White, Yellow, and Brown by Frances Elizabeth Herring (1903)
"... LANKY SCOT—kilts AND BEAUTY—CALLED NORTH. A CALEDONIAN BALL given by i'The
Sons of Scotland" was announced, and as Uncle M'Gregor was "Chief" that year, ..."
4. Kiltie McCoy: An American Boy with an Irish Name Fighting in France as a by Patrick Terrance McCoy (1918)
"... II FROM MUFTI TO kilts IF I live a thousand years I'll never forget my feelings
as I looked over my new uniform of the Camero- nian Scottish Rifles. ..."
5. With "the Thirty-Second" in the Peninsular and Other Campaigns by Henry Ross- Lewin, John Henry Wardell (1904)
"... military musician—The kilts prove offensive to French delicacy—Lord Keith—A
judge of claret. Note—Losses of the 32nd regiment, July-December 1813. ..."
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