Kilt vs. Petticoat

Kiltverb

To gather up (skirts) around the body.

Kiltverb

nonstandard form of killed: kill.

Kiltnoun

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.

Kiltnoun

(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

Kiltnoun

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.

Kiltnoun

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.

Kilt

p. p. from Kill.

Kiltnoun

A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg.

Kiltverb

To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes.

Kiltnoun

a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men in the Highlands of northern Scotland

Kiltnoun

a garment resembling a knee-length skirt of pleated tartan cloth, traditionally worn by men as part of Scottish Highland dress and now also worn by women and girls.

Kiltverb

gather (a garment or material) in vertical pleats.

Kiltverb

tuck up one's skirts around one's body.

Kilt

A kilt (Scottish Gaelic: fèileadh [ˈfeːləɣ]; Irish: féileadh) is a type of knee-length men’s dress skirt non-bifurcated with pleats at the back, originating in the traditional dress of Gaelic men and boys in the Scottish Highlands. It is first recorded in the 16th century as the great kilt, a full-length garment whose upper half could be worn as a cloak.

Petticoatnoun

(historical) A tight, usually padded undercoat worn by men over a shirt and under the doublet.

Petticoatnoun

(historical) A woman's undercoat, worn to be displayed beneath an open gown.

Petticoatnoun

(historical) A fisherman's loose canvas or oilcloth skirt.

Petticoatnoun

A type of ornamental skirt or underskirt, often displayed below a dress; chiefly in plural, designating a woman's skirts collectively.

Petticoatnoun

A light woman's undergarment worn under a dress or skirt, and hanging either from the shoulders or (now especially) from the waist; a kind of slip, worn to make the skirt fuller, or for extra warmth.

Petticoatnoun

(slang) A woman.

Petticoatnoun

(historical) A bell-mouthed piece over the exhaust nozzles in the smokebox of a locomotive, strengthening and equalising the draught through the boiler-tubes.

Petticoatverb

(transitive) To dress in a petticoat.

Petticoatadjective

(dated) Feminine; female; involving a woman.

Petticoatnoun

A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist.

Petticoatnoun

undergarment worn under a skirt

Petticoat

A petticoat or underskirt is an article of clothing, a type of undergarment worn under a skirt or a dress. Its precise meaning varies over centuries and between countries.