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The correct spelling is kilt.
How to pronounce kilt
noun
IPA: /kɪlt/
Say it like: Kil-t
The correct spelling is kilt. A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and ba… For example: "Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined."
Usage Examples
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Meanings
noun
- 1.A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern.
- 2.Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid
- 3.A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA.
- 4.A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.
verb
- 1.To gather up (skirts) around the body.
- 2.To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- 3.To render inoperative.
- 4.To stop, cease or render void; to terminate.
- 5.To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.
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