high-kilted

Mevrouw Brounckers, in high-kilted wincey, a man's hat of coarse straw perched on her weather-beaten, sandy-grey head, came stumping down the waggon-ladder, calling for her potatoes.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

She had wished to arrive at the club in fine feather, but had counted on walking home in the dusk, with her best skirts high-kilted, and saving an honest penny.

The Butterfly House Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

Then she carefully let down her high-kilted print dress till only her white feet "like little mice" stole in and out.

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

In his workroom were piled, under a thick layer of dust or with faces turned to the wall, the canvases of his student years, -- when, as the fashion of the day was, he limned scenes of gallantry, depicting with a sleek, timorous brush emptied quivers and birds put to flight, risky pastimes and reveries of bliss, high-kilted goose-girls and shepherdesses with rose-wreathed bosoms.

Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

Peter Buchan's MS. of "high-kilted" songs Secret Songs of Silence (1832), 1 (at Harvard).

Souter Gaed the Soo a Kiss 1881

School, who had got down to Leith Sands, gone beyond the PRAWN-DUB, wet his hose and shoon, and, finally, had been carried home, in compassion, by some high-kilted fishwife, cursing all the while the trouble which the brat occasioned her.

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

Yet with all this he abated not of the natural mirth or the racy humour of the lyric muse of Scotland: he did not like her the less because she walked like some of the maidens of her strains, high-kilted at times, and spoke with the freedom of innocence.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777