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filibeg

filibeg is the alternative form 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 filibeg

pluralfilibegs

Questions about filibeg

What is filibeg the alternative form of?
Filibeg is the alternative form of philibeg.

Words near filibeg in the dictionary

  1. filiates
  2. filiating
  3. filiation
  4. filiations
  5. Filiași
  6. filibeg
  7. filibegs
  8. Filiberto
  9. Filibertos
  10. filibranch
  11. filibuster

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filibeg (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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