kilt

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a knee-length pleated garment, usually made of tartan cloth and traditionally associated with Scottish Highland dress

   He wore his family's tartan kilt to the ceremony.

2. 2
   verb

   to tuck or gather a skirt or other garment up around the body

   Travelers would kilt their long skirts before wading across the stream.

The noun developed from the older verb kilt, "to tuck or gather up clothing," probably borrowed from a Scandinavian source related to Old Norse kjalta ("lap; fold of a garment"). The garment was named for the way its cloth was gathered and pleated.

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