Quote Originally Posted by Caradoc
Welcome.

If you don't mind my asking, where did you get that particular word? I've only seen "feileadh-mor" once - in a document telling me not to use that particular phrasing because it was a backformation from "philibeg," back to "feileadh-beg," and thence to "feileadh-mhor" to differentiate it from the "small kilt."

"Breacan feile," or "bhreacain feileadh," or even "belted plaid" are more likely.
I got it from the glossary of terms in my "Early Highland Dress" text by Matt Newsome.

Basically I'm a lazy SOB who didn't want to call it a "great-kilt" so I used the first term I saw that meant the same thing. I usually call it "the belted plaid" or the "great-kilt". Besides based on Newsome's research it's entirely likely that the philibeg evolved around the same time as the great kilt so *shrug*