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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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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

He is the kilted king, a monarch with his heart in the Highlands, but is Scotland ready to claim Charles as its own?

From BBC • 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

Still dressed as a kilted Scot, I carried the injured man into the street, and already a crowd had gathered in the belief that there had been a terrible disaster.

From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.