Definitions for kiltkɪlt

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

kiltkɪlt(n.)

  1. a pleated, knee-length tartan skirt worn by Scotsmen in the Highlands or in some military regiments.

    Category: Clothing

  2. a skirt modeled on this, for women and girls.

    Category: Clothing

  3. (v.t.)to draw or tuck up, as the skirt, about oneself.

    Category: Clothing

  4. to provide with a kilt.

    Category: Clothing

Origin of kilt:

1300–50; ME kylte, perh. < Scand; cf. Dan kilte to tuck up

kilt′like`(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. kilt(noun)

    a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men as part of the traditional dress in the Highlands of northern Scotland

Wiktionary

  1. kilt(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.

  2. kilt(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;

  3. kilt(Noun)

    a plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference;

  4. kilt(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.

  5. kilt(Verb)

    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.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Kilt(u)

    p. p. from Kill

  2. Kilt(noun)

    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

  3. Kilt(verb)

    to tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes


Translations for kilt

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

kilt(noun)

an item of Scottish national dress, a pleated tartan skirt reaching to the knees and traditionally worn by men.

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