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skilts

skilts noun: a kind of wide, coarse, short trousers worn in the USA around the 18th century.

Noun

skilts pl (plural only)

  1. (US, dated, dialectal, historical, plural, plural-only) A kind of wide, coarse, short trousers worn in the USA around the 18th century.
    • The lad's skilts, through which were thrust his lean dry shanks, gave him a semblance to a peasant of Gascony on stilts.1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom, page 22
    Synonyms:
    skilty-boots

Synonyms of skilts

  • skilty-boots

Questions about skilts

What does skilts mean?
Skilts means a kind of wide, coarse, short trousers worn in the USA around the 18th century.
What part of speech is skilts?
Skilts is a noun.

Words near skilts in the dictionary

  1. skillz
  2. skils
  3. Skilsaw
  4. Skilsaws
  5. skilsies
  6. skilts
  7. skilvings
  8. skim
  9. skim coat
  10. skim coats
  11. skim milk

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