Definition of Fillibeg

1. n. A kilt. See Filibeg.

Definition of Fillibeg

1. Noun. (alternative form of filibeg) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fillibeg

1. filibeg [n -S] - See also: filibeg

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fillibeg

filler graft
fillers
filles
fillest
fillet
fillet layer
fillet of sole
filletable
filleted
filleter
filleters
filleth
filleting
filletings
fillets
fillibeg (current term)
fillibegs
fillibuster
fillibusters
fillies
filling
filling defect
filling defect in renal collecting system
filling in
filling out
filling station
filling stations
filling the bill
fillingly
fillingness

Literary usage of Fillibeg

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Baptism by Robert Robinson (1817)
"One ancient monument represents candidates in a sort of drawers, like the highland fillibeg ; and this most likely was taken from the ..."

2. British Monachism: Or, Manners and Customs of the Monks and Nuns of England by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (1843)
"... for some orders, as the Franciscan, wore only a woollen tunick next the skin.™ Breeches. The Highland Campestre, or fillibeg, was probably the ..."

3. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson (1775)
"... the fame poverty that made it then difficult for them to change their clothing, hinders them now from changing it again. The fillibeg, or lower garment, ..."

4. Author's & Printer's Dictionary: A Guide for Authors by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"chambermaid, pi. titles ; jole, a prostitute. fillet/*, in Fr. m. filet; -ed*, -ing*. fillibeg, ..."

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