°Traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around
skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a
tartan pattern.
°(historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid;.
verb
°To gather up part of a long garment, and hold it with a tuck, belt, pin, etc., in order to make it shorter.
synonyms:
filibeg, philibeg