bekilted

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From be- +‎ kilt +‎ -ed.

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bekilted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a kilt.
    • 1878, Family Herald[1], volumes 40-42:
      An opening in the foliage overhead allows the fine silvery light to stream down on the bekilted form of a remarkably good-looking young man.
    • 2000, Robin Eagles, Francophilia in English Society, 1748-1815, →ISBN, page 9:
      There was never any question of the bekilted Campbell being a part of the same race as a London 'cit'.
    • 2002, Aviel Roshwald, Richard Stites, editors, European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 1914-1918, →ISBN, page 340:
      One of the most popular was Harry Lauder, whose persona as a bekilted Scots vaudeville minstrel was instantly recognized world-wide.

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