kilt

Definition of kilt in English English dictionary: To gather up part of a long garment, and hold it with a tuck, belt, pin, etc., in order to make it shorter
She kilted up her skirt and waded out to the boat.; 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; 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; a plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; 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; from Kill; 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; 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; A kilt is a skirt with a lot of vertical folds, traditionally worn by Scottish men. Kilts can also be worn by women and girls. a type of thick skirt made of tartan (=material with a pattern of lines and squares) that is traditionally worn by Scottish men (kilt (14-19 centuries), from a language). Knee-length, skirtlike garment worn by men as part of the traditional national garb, or Highland dress, of Scotland. It is made of permanently pleated wool and wrapped around the wearer's waist so that the pleats are in the back and the flat ends overlap in front. It is usually worn with the plaid, a rectangular length of cloth draped over the left shoulder. Both kilt and plaid are woven with a tartan pattern. The ensemble, which developed in the 17th century, is worn for ordinary purposes as well as for special occasions. Highland dress is the uniform of Scottish regiments in the British army; kilts were worn into battle as recently as World War II; a knee-length pleated skirt usually of tartan, namely a twilled woolen fabric with a plaid textile design consisting of stripes of varying width and color usually patterned to designate a distinctive clan and worn by men in Scotland and by Scottish regiments in the British armies; a garment that resembles a Scottish kilt; To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes; n A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland; {i} knee-length pleated skirt of tartan wool which is worn by men as part of the traditional dress of the Scottish Highlands; a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men in the Highlands of northern Scotland; Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg and the great kilt or belted plaid; – short pleated skirt worn by men
kilt pin: A pin, somewhat similar in shape, though larger than, a safety pin or bobby pin, which is inserted through the outer, front apron, or through both aprons of a kilt or a kilt-skirt
kilted: Plaited after the manner of kilting
kilted: Tucked or fastened up; -- said of petticoats, etc
kilted: Having on a kilt
kilting: A method of vertically arranging flat plaits such that each plait is folded so as to cover half the of the one before it
A kilt: philibeg
A kilt: fillibeg
A kilt: filibeg
kilted: Tucked or fastened up; said of petticoats, etc
kilting: A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one
kilting: present participle of kilt
kilting: {i} act of folding and pleating (fabric, etc.)
kilts: plural of kilt

kilt

Turkish pronunciation

kîlt

Synonyms

filibeg, philibeg

Pronunciation

/ˈkəlt/ /ˈkɪlt/

Etymology

() From Danish kilte Webster's Dictionary, from the Old Danish kilta, a fold in clothes, from Old Norse kelta (spelt also kjalta), lap in Ordbok over det danske sprog.