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.

Simplified etymology

Kilt, recorded as the garment name from the mid-18th century, comes from a Middle English verb meaning “to gird” or “to tuck around the body.”

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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