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Definition of Kilt
1. Noun. A knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men as part of the traditional dress in the Highlands of northern Scotland.
Definition of Kilt
1. n. 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.
2. v. t. To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes.
Definition of Kilt
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. (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; ¹
3. Noun. a plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; ¹
4. Noun. 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. ¹
5. Verb. To gather up part of a long garment, and hold it with a tuck, belt, pin, etc., in order to make it shorter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kilt
1. to make creases or pleats in [v -ED, -ING, -S]
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