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[Wompet]

Merriam-Webster:
kilt (noun) -
1: a knee-length pleated skirt usually of tartan worn by men in Scotland and by Scottish regiments in the British armies
2: a garment that resembles a Scottish kilt

Italics mine.
Does this definition satisfy? It was written by a descendent of Scots, after all (Webster being a sept of MacFarlane).

[McClef]

Well it implies that only men in Scotland wear them...

[Nick]

From "The Devil's Dictionary," by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), a book written for "enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humour, and clean English to slang."


KILT-a costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.