kilt

Etymology 1
From, apparently from , ultimately from ,. Perhaps from, , , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) To gather up (skirts) around the body.

Noun



 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  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
 * 3) 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.
 * 4) 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) 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.

Derived terms

 * kilt jacket
 * kilt pin

Translations

 * Bulgarian: килт
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蘇格蘭短裙
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kilt
 * Esperanto: kilto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: კილტი
 * German: Schottenrock,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: skotapils
 * Italian: gonnellino
 * Japanese: キルト
 * Korean: 킬트
 * Marathi: किल्ट
 * Norman: cotelle Êcossaise
 * Norwegian: kilt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, шотла́ндская ю́бка
 * Scottish Gaelic: fèileadh, fèileadh beag, fèileadh mòr
 * Spanish: falda escocesa
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh: cilt

Verb

 * 1) * 1970 (reprinted 1999) Norman R. Yetman (ed.), Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives, Courier Corporation, ISBN 9780486409122, p. 160:
 * But tweren’t so awful long before Marse Hampton got kilt in de big battle, and Marse Thad, too. Dey was both kilt in de charge, right dere on de breastworks, with de guns in dey hands, dem two young masters of mine, right dere in dat Gettysburg battle And I was eighteen in dat October after dat big fight what Marse Thad and Marse Hampton got kilt in.
 * 1) * 1970 (reprinted 1999) Norman R. Yetman (ed.), Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives, Courier Corporation, ISBN 9780486409122, p. 160:
 * But tweren’t so awful long before Marse Hampton got kilt in de big battle, and Marse Thad, too. Dey was both kilt in de charge, right dere on de breastworks, with de guns in dey hands, dem two young masters of mine, right dere in dat Gettysburg battle And I was eighteen in dat October after dat big fight what Marse Thad and Marse Hampton got kilt in.

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 * 1)  traditional Scottish man’s skirt

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