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English
Noun
skilts pl (plural only)
- (US, dialect, dated or historical) A kind of wide, coarse, short trousers worn in the USA around the 18th century.
1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom, page 22:The lad's skilts, through which were thrust his lean dry shanks, gave him a semblance to a peasant of Gascony on stilts.
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References
- Bartlett, John Russell (1859) Dictionary of Americanisms, 2nd edition, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 410
- “skilts”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Swedish
Verb
skilts
- supine of skiljas
- passive supine of skilja