skilts
English edit
Noun edit
skilts pl (plural only)
- (US, dialect, dated) A kind of large, coarse, short trousers formerly worn.
- 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom, page 22:
- The lad's skilts, through which were thrust his lean dry shanks, gave him a semblance to a peasant of Gascony on stilts.
Synonyms edit
- skilty-boots (Dorset)
References edit
- Bartlett, John Russell (1859) Dictionary of Americanisms[1], 2nd edition, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 410
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “skilts”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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skilts