Definition of kilt in English:
kilt
noun kɪltkɪlt
A garment resembling a knee-length skirt of pleated tartan cloth, traditionally worn by men as part of Scottish Highland dress and now also worn by women and girls.
- The venerable Leith-based firm, best known for its Highland dress, kilts and tartans, boosted sales by around £4m from its pool of more than 80 menswear outlets in Japanese department stores last year.
- Inevitably - for the museum will cater to the tourist as much to the home-based enthusiast, one gallery is devoted to the Highland soldier whose kilts and tartans turned him into a romantic cult.
- Woollen kilts, Hessian full-length skirts, single shoulder organza tops and transparent trousers appear in earthy tones of brown and green.
- The photographer scattered cotton reels on our billowing skirts and we pretended to weave some kilts for our wild Scottish blokes out there in the hills.
- In this way, the entire Scottish nation adopted the bogus Highland symbols of kilt and tartan.
- There was a time in the 80's when it looked as if the clans were gathering again to avenge Glencoe, so ubiquitous was the tartan kilt.
- This pleased Ritchie, who can don his kilt by claiming Scottish kin in the form of a grandfather who served in the Seaforth Highlanders.
- Traditional Scottish Bagpipes, kilts, lamb on the spit, golf, flyfishing and drams of Bell's Extra Special Old Scotch Whisky - what more do you need?
- The famous Braemar Games are in early September and offer a great chance to ogle Scottish sportsmen in their kilts.
- In another corner small girls in kilts and black waistcoats were doing sword dances to pipe music.
- A Scottish kid in a kilt (he said it helped him get rides) disappeared up the Copland Pass trailhead.
- What most people associate with ‘Scottishness’ - tartan kilts, whisky, bagpipes and tossing the caber - are traditions descended from the Gaelic Highlands.
- The company plans to supply a range of black tartan kilts to meet demand for more contemporary-looking Highland clothing.
- He borrowed a kilt from a Scottish friend and, wearing just that and his work boots, went into the office with the bottle of whisky.
- First, he insults the national dress of Scotland by wearing that skirt masquerading as a kilt at the Tartan Day celebrations in New York.
- The abstract elements of beadwork patterns play a key role in flagging difference - like the tartan kilts of Scottish clans.
- We are back to that old business of trying to create a new image of Scotland because foreigners, bless'em, think of the auld country only in terms of kilts and tartan and all that old-fashioned stuff.
- On Labor Day, Heather and Ted were married aboard the Queen Mary in a lavish ceremony replete with Edwardian-era costumes, bagpipers and Scottish kilts for the groom and his friends.
- Thank goodness Scotland invented tartan and the kilt and not the nylon shirt or the polyester jacket.
- Along with the industrialists and merchants of Glasgow and Edinburgh, they assembled in Edinburgh dressed lavishly in tartan, wearing kilts, singing Robert Burns songs.
verb kɪltkɪlt
[with object]1Gather (a garment or material) in vertical pleats.
- I looked longingly at my breeches, but picked up the next best thing, one of the long kilted skirts I used for riding.
- Over 40' and up to 44' use four yards in a kilted skirt and five yards in a proper.
- If the Scottish Tourist Board - or whatever daft name they now go under - were to design a mock Highland town full of tartan tat and kilted kitsch for the benefit of tourists, they might very well come up with Inveraray.
2usually kilt something upTuck up one's skirts around one's body.
- So she kilted up her petticoats and started to run home.
- She kilted up her kirtle, because of the dew that she saw lying deep on the grass, and so went her way down through the garden.
Derivatives
kilted
1Wearing a kilt.
a band of kilted bagpipers- By the time you read this, I will have Stripped the Willow and done the best approximation I can to the Dashing White Sergeant, as I ring out the old century with fellow kilted revellers in St Andrews.
- Tourists are piped on to the train by a young kilted boy on the platform as steam gathers into clouds which float gently overhead.
- I think Papa's tale involved a fight; perhaps that's where he and his buddies teased some kilted Scotsmen and found out why they were called the ladies from hell.
- kilted skirts
2(of a garment or material) gathered in vertical pleats.
adjective ˈkɪltɪdˈkɪl(t)əd
Origin
Middle English (as a verb in the sense 'tuck up around the body'): of Scandinavian origin; compare with Danish kilte (op) 'tuck (up)' and Old Norse kilting 'a skirt'. The noun dates from the mid 18th century.
Rhymes
atilt, built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt, lilt, quilt, silt, spilt, stilt, tilt, upbuilt, wilt
Definition of kilt in US English:
kilt
nounkɪltkilt
A garment resembling a knee-length skirt of pleated tartan cloth, traditionally worn by men as part of Scottish Highland dress and now also worn by women and girls.
- The abstract elements of beadwork patterns play a key role in flagging difference - like the tartan kilts of Scottish clans.
- This pleased Ritchie, who can don his kilt by claiming Scottish kin in the form of a grandfather who served in the Seaforth Highlanders.
- There was a time in the 80's when it looked as if the clans were gathering again to avenge Glencoe, so ubiquitous was the tartan kilt.
- On Labor Day, Heather and Ted were married aboard the Queen Mary in a lavish ceremony replete with Edwardian-era costumes, bagpipers and Scottish kilts for the groom and his friends.
- Woollen kilts, Hessian full-length skirts, single shoulder organza tops and transparent trousers appear in earthy tones of brown and green.
- Traditional Scottish Bagpipes, kilts, lamb on the spit, golf, flyfishing and drams of Bell's Extra Special Old Scotch Whisky - what more do you need?
- What most people associate with ‘Scottishness’ - tartan kilts, whisky, bagpipes and tossing the caber - are traditions descended from the Gaelic Highlands.
- The venerable Leith-based firm, best known for its Highland dress, kilts and tartans, boosted sales by around £4m from its pool of more than 80 menswear outlets in Japanese department stores last year.
- The famous Braemar Games are in early September and offer a great chance to ogle Scottish sportsmen in their kilts.
- Along with the industrialists and merchants of Glasgow and Edinburgh, they assembled in Edinburgh dressed lavishly in tartan, wearing kilts, singing Robert Burns songs.
- We are back to that old business of trying to create a new image of Scotland because foreigners, bless'em, think of the auld country only in terms of kilts and tartan and all that old-fashioned stuff.
- The photographer scattered cotton reels on our billowing skirts and we pretended to weave some kilts for our wild Scottish blokes out there in the hills.
- The company plans to supply a range of black tartan kilts to meet demand for more contemporary-looking Highland clothing.
- First, he insults the national dress of Scotland by wearing that skirt masquerading as a kilt at the Tartan Day celebrations in New York.
- Inevitably - for the museum will cater to the tourist as much to the home-based enthusiast, one gallery is devoted to the Highland soldier whose kilts and tartans turned him into a romantic cult.
- He borrowed a kilt from a Scottish friend and, wearing just that and his work boots, went into the office with the bottle of whisky.
- A Scottish kid in a kilt (he said it helped him get rides) disappeared up the Copland Pass trailhead.
- Thank goodness Scotland invented tartan and the kilt and not the nylon shirt or the polyester jacket.
- In this way, the entire Scottish nation adopted the bogus Highland symbols of kilt and tartan.
- In another corner small girls in kilts and black waistcoats were doing sword dances to pipe music.
verbkɪltkilt
[with object]Gather (a garment or material) in vertical pleats.
- If the Scottish Tourist Board - or whatever daft name they now go under - were to design a mock Highland town full of tartan tat and kilted kitsch for the benefit of tourists, they might very well come up with Inveraray.
- I looked longingly at my breeches, but picked up the next best thing, one of the long kilted skirts I used for riding.
- Over 40' and up to 44' use four yards in a kilted skirt and five yards in a proper.
Origin
Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘tuck up around the body’): of Scandinavian origin; compare with Danish kilte (op) ‘tuck (up)’ and Old Norse kilting ‘a skirt’. The noun dates from the mid 18th century.