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kilted

American  
[kil-tid] / ˈkɪl tɪd /

adjective

  1. wearing a kilt.

  2. gathered in pleats; pleated.


Etymology

Origin of kilted

First recorded in 1800–10; kilt + -ed 3


Example Sentences

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Near the bar, a man with an obscure top passed around a World Cup trophy which barely registered with the kilted Scot and pals, their eyes fixed on the game beaming in from Seattle.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

A profusion of white Phalaenopsis orchids decorated the sanctuary and a kilted Los Angeles Police Department piper played as Riordan’s widow, children and grandchildren filed into the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

In May, the kilted bagpipers and drummers of the Royal Welsh Battlegroup played marching songs at a parade ground filled with British, Danish and French troops in the Tapa military base in Estonia.

From Reuters ● Jun. 15, 2022

At the Iowa gravesite, four kilted bagpipers played mournful tunes and a country artist sang the national anthem.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021

Lamboys, lam′boiz, n.pl. kilted flexible steel-plates worn skirt-like from the waist.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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