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kilt | kiltlike |

As a verb kilt

is to gather up (skirts) around the body.

As a noun kilt

is 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.

As an adjective kiltlike is

resembling a kilt or some aspect of one.

kilt

English

(wikipedia kilt)

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To gather up (skirts) around the body.
  • * 1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 385:
  • Else at her new place worked outdoor and indoor, she'd to kilt' her skirts (if they needed ' kilting – and that was damned little with those short-like frocks) and go out and help at the spreading of dung […].

    Noun

    (kilts)
  • 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.
  • (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;
  • A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA.
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  • 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

    References

    kiltlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a kilt or some aspect of one.
  • Synonyms

    * skirtlike