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filabeg

filabeg is the alternative spelling of philibeg.

Meaning of philibeg

Noun

philibeg (plural philibegs)

  1. A little kilt.
    • Instead of plaids and philibegs, and trews, they were, henceforth, to be clothed in coats and in waistcoats, and (worst of all) in BREECHES!!!1846, John Campbell, The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England

Forms of filabeg

pluralfilabegs

Questions about filabeg

What is filabeg the alternative spelling of?
Filabeg is the alternative spelling of philibeg.

Words near filabeg in the dictionary

  1. Fil-Am
  2. Fil-Ams
  3. fil-chi
  4. fila
  5. Filaarataa
  6. filabeg
  7. filabegs
  8. filable
  9. filabuster
  10. filaceous
  11. filacer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filabeg (page history and authors); philibeg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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