Complete Definition of "kilt"

English

Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪlt|-ɪlt

Noun
en-noun|kilts
wikipedia|Kilt

  1. 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. (historical) 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;
  3. a plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference;
  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.

Synonyms
filibeg, philibeg

Translations
trans-top|traditional Scottish garment
Finnish: kiltti
French: #French|kilt m
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Scottish Gaelic: fèileadh m, fèileadh beag m, fèileadh mòr m
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