EGAVE

kilt

About 0.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To gather up (skirts) around the body. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. verb Nonstandard form of killed: simple past and past participle of kill.

Similar words

filibeg kirtle kerchief girt suit blouse dress scabbard scarf cuirass

Often followed by

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Word family

kilted kilting kilts

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