kilt

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A kilt

From Danish kilt (“a kilt”)^[1], from the Old Danish kilta (“a fold in clothes”), from Old Norse kelta, kjalta (“lap”), whence the Icelandic kjalta (“lap”), Icelandic kilting (“a skirt”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kelt-, *kelþōn, *kelþīn (“womb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“round body, child”).^[2] Compare Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Old English ċild (“child, infant, a youth of gentle birth”). More at child.

kilt (plural kilts)

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.
(historical) 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;
a plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference;
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.

traditional Scottish garment

kilt (third-person singular simple present kilts, present participle kilting, simple past and past participle kilted)

To gather up part of a long garment, and hold it with a tuck, belt, pin, etc., in order to make it shorter.

She kilted up her skirt and waded out to the boat.