Highland dress
Britishnoun
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the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
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a modern version of this worn for formal occasions
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Lynne Fuller was putting through trolley-loads of shopping at Aldi's Inshes store in Inverness when a piper in full Highland dress marched in, followed by her boyfriend Mike Durrant.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
When they did the following day, the full-back Marquitos disembarking the plane in full Highland dress, a fleet of white convertibles awaited them.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2020
A surreal scene: Two men in full Scottish Highland dress, with kilts and sporrans, were allowed through to go to a wedding, they said.
From Fox News ● Dec. 8, 2018
Such was her fame that she was invited to represent Scotland at the US Bicentennial celebrations in 1976 where she paraded in full Highland dress.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2015
So I thought of the oath banning the Highland dress, which, in the unwisdom of our over-lords, exercised by right of force, a Jacobite rebel had to take, before he could get a pardon.
From The Black Colonel by James Milne
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