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kiltie

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who wears a kilt.
  • noun A shoe having a fringed tongue that flaps over the instep.
  • noun The tongue of such a shoe.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A shoe having a fringed tongue or fringed extra piece that lies over the tongue.
  • noun The fringed tongue of such a shoe.
  • noun A person who wears a kilt

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Examples

  • I finally scored the perfect pair - tough, black, ankle-length lace-ups with a fringe "kiltie" - at a vintage stall in a market in Brooklyn.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Hannah Sung 2010

  • 39A: Kiltie's instrument (pipes) - a "kiltie" is a Scot.

    Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle 2009

  • “Well, Carmelo Anthony is wearing brown kiltie loafers,” Rivers said.

    Nothing But Neat at the NBA All-Star Game Con Chapman 2011

  • I think I even wore it with a wonderful pair of kiltie brogues that I wish I still owned.

    October 2007 2007

  • I think I even wore it with a wonderful pair of kiltie brogues that I wish I still owned.

    Boden, Boden, Boden - A Dress A Day 2007

  • "Seems a pity to anesthetize your taste buds with that kiltie coffin varnish in a restaurant like this," I murmured.

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • Wherever the sweep of the kiltie went, there was going to be something doing.

    S.O.S. Stand to! Reginald Grant

  • Looking then to the left I saw another kiltie in an argument with a Prussian; they were fencing with their bayonets, and a second Hun was coming up behind and again I took aim, but before I was able to get my pill started, my mate robbed me of the honor and sent his pill crashing through Fritzie's head.

    S.O.S. Stand to! Reginald Grant

  • Now it so happened that at the identical time that the Sergeant was so engaged, a kiltie battalion was making its way to the trenches on a foot path, running diagonally across the front of the guns.

    S.O.S. Stand to! Reginald Grant

  • At one place I had leapt with my pal into a small shell hole, and over to my right was a kiltie engaged in a hand-to-hand struggle with a Hun.

    S.O.S. Stand to! Reginald Grant

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