Tartan vs. Kilt

Tartannoun

A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans and some Scottish families and institutions having their own distinctive patterns.

Tartannoun

The pattern associated with such material.

Tartannoun

An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.

Tartannoun

Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.

Tartannoun

A type of one-masted vessel used in the Mediterranean.

Tartannoun

(historical) A kind of long covered carriage.

Tartanadjective

Having a pattern like a tartan.

Tartanadjective

(humorous) Scottish.

Tartanverb

(transitive) To clothe in tartan.

Tartannoun

Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.

Tartannoun

A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.

Tartannoun

a cloth having a crisscross design

Tartan

Tartan (Scottish Gaelic: breacan [ˈpɾʲɛxkən]) (Irish: breacán) is a patterned cloth consisting of criss-crossed, horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. Tartans originated in woven wool, but now they are made in many other materials.

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.