Highland dress

noun

1. the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
2. a modern version of this worn for formal occasions

Example Sentences

Tartans—The full Highland dress, made of the chequered stuff so termed.

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There were present on that occasion 120 other Scotchmen, and most of them wore the Highland dress.

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The huts were after the Highland fashion, and the boys who were playing wore the Highland dress and philabeg.

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He wore the picturesque highland dress—the tartan of the Clan Scott.

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The Highland dress is now only worn in Gairloch by a few gentlemen, pipers, keepers, and some of the better-to-do schoolboys.

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