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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.
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noun
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
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Usage: historical
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noun
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.
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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.
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verb
To gather up (skirts) around the body.
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verb
Nonstandard form of killed: simple past and past participle of kill.
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Usage: alt-of, colloquial, nonstandard, obsolete
Qualifier: especially Ireland or African-American Vernacular
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noun
a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men as part of the traditional dress in the Highlands of northern Scotland
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: skirt
History
From Middle English kilten (“to tuck up, gird”), apparently from North Germanic, ultimately from Old Norse kelta, kjalta (“skirt; lap”). Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kelt-, *kelþǭ, *kilþį̄ (“womb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“round body; child”). Cognate with Danish kilte (“to tuck”), Swedish kilta (“to swathe”). Related to English child.
From Middle English kilt, equivalent to kill + -t.
Across languages
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