Kilt

Etymology
From kilte:, from the Old Danish kilta:, a fold in clothes, from  kelta: (spelt also kjalta:), lap.

Noun

 * 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, or 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

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 * Scottish Gaelic: fèileadh, fèileadh beag , fèileadh mòr

Verb

 * 1) 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.