filibeg

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  1. A plaited petticoat or skirt reaching only to the knees, worn by men in the Highlands of Scotland; a kilt. The filibeg or lower garment is still very common. Johnson, Jour. to Western Isles. Upon the road to Port-ree, Prince Charles changed his dress, and put on man's clothes again, a tartan short coat and waistcoat, with philibeg and short hose, a plaid and wig, and bonnet. Boswell, Journal, p. 222.

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  • Would not look right beneath a filibeg. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14
  • And that filibustering filibeg —  Ulysses
  • As soon as he arrived, he was shown into the painter's bedroom, where lay the portmanteau he had carried thither himself the night before: out of it, with a strange mingling of pleasure and sadness, he now took the garments of his father's vanished state -- the filibeg of the dark tartan of his clan, in which green predominated; the French coat of black velvet of Genoa, with silver buttons; the bonnet, which ought to have had an eagle's feather, but had only an aigrette of diamonds; the black sporran of long goat's hair, with the silver clasp; the silver mounted dirk, with its appendages, set all with pale cairngorms nearly as good as oriental topazes; and the claymore of the renowned Andrew's forging, with its basket hilt of silver, and its black, silver mounted sheath. —  The Marquis of Lossie
 

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  1. Also written fillibeg and (improperly) philibeg, sometimes fillybag; from Gaelic feileadh-beag, the kilt in its modern shape, literally ‘small kilt’ (beag, small, little), in distinction from feileadh-mor, the ‘large kilt’ (mor, large, great), the kilt in its primitive form, consisting of one piece, generally of tartan, covering, when spread, the whole body, and girt around the waist; feileadh, feile, the kilt, cf. filleadh, a fold, plait, from fill, v., fold.
 

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