Synonyms for kilt

Grammar : Noun

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Phonetic Transcription : kɪlt

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Définition of kilt

Origin : "plaited tartan skirt," c.1730, from Middle English verb kilten "to tuck up" (mid-14c.), from a Scandinavian source (cf. Danish kilte op "to tuck up;" Old Norse kilting "shirt," kjalta "fold made by gathering up to the knees").

As in skirt : noun ladies' garment that hangs from waist
As in petticoat : noun underwear
As in pleat : noun fold

Example sentences :

You have the kilt at every turn, in every tartan, and often in no tartan at all.
Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes

He's up to his neck in Irish things, and speaks Gaelic and wears an Irish kilt.
Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine

An' poor Tim was kilt the way he wouldn't tell o' the boys that did it.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

Oh, Biddy, Biddy, your darlint is going to be kilt entoirely!
Extract from : « Australia Revenged » by Boomerang

We have a way of belting on the kilt in real Argile I have seen nowhere else.
Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro

But the thought of gettin' kilt before ever I'd made you Mrs. Murphy was too much for me.
Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan

(He had never anticipated any satisfaction in wearing a kilt).
Extract from : « Major Vigoureux » by A. T. Quiller-Couch

Oh, my weans, my weans, who'll care for you now when they've kilt your da?
Extract from : « The Northern Iron » by George A. Birmingham

The sarong is more to the Malay than is the kilt to the Scotchman.
Extract from : « Tales of the Malayan Coast » by Rounsevelle Wildman

Why, she actually tells me that the natives still wear the kilt!
Extract from : « Freaks on the Fells » by R.M. Ballantyne

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