Meanings
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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.
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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.
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Etymology
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.