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kilt⋅ed

  [kil-tid]
–adjective
1. wearing a kilt.
2. gathered in pleats; pleated.
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Origin:
1800–10; kilt + -ed 3
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kilt

  [kilt]
–noun
1. any short, pleated skirt, esp. a tartan wraparound, as that worn by men in the Scottish Highlands.
–verb (used with object)
2. to draw or tuck up, as the skirt, about oneself.
3. to provide (a skirt) with kilt pleats.
Origin:
1300–50; ME kylte, perh. < Scand; cf. Dan kilte to tuck up

Related forms:
kiltlike, adjective
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kilt   (kĭlt)   
n.  

  1. A knee-length skirt with deep pleats, usually of a tartan wool, worn as part of the dress for men in the Scottish Highlands.

  2. A similar skirt worn by women, girls, and boys.

tr.v.   kilt·ed, kilt·ing, kilts
To tuck up (something) around the body.

[From kilt, to tuck up, from Middle English kilten, of Scandinavian origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

kilt 
"plaited tartan skirt," c.1730, from M.E. verb kilten "to tuck up" (c.1340), from a Scand. source (cf. Dan. kilte op "to tuck up;" O.N. kilting "shirt," kjalta "fold made by gathering up to the knees").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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