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04-21-2006, 11:16 PM
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Hi all, I'm new to the boards, but I've been wearing kilts for a little over a year and a half now.
I have a black watch Sport-Kilt which I find very comfortable for casual wear, and a Feileadh-mor which I mainly wear for SCA events, but have started to wear on random days off.
My interests include video games, leatherworking, roleplaying, blacksmithing, woodworking and medieval artillery... among a myriad of other interests.
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04-21-2006, 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Mithral Hi all, I'm new to the boards, but I've been wearing kilts for a little over a year and a half now.
I have a black watch Sport-Kilt which I find very comfortable for casual wear, and a Feileadh-mor which I mainly wear for SCA events, but have started to wear on random days off.
My interests include video games, leatherworking, roleplaying, blacksmithing, woodworking and medieval artillery... among a myriad of other interests. | Welcome.
If you don't mind my asking, where did you get that particular word? I've only seen "feileadh-mor" once - in a document telling me not to use that particular phrasing because it was a backformation from "philibeg," back to "feileadh-beg," and thence to "feileadh-mhor" to differentiate it from the "small kilt."
"Breacan feile," or "bhreacain feileadh," or even "belted plaid" are more likely.
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04-21-2006, 11:50 PM
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Welcome,
Been trying to get my cousin kilted, he's down the road from you in Moravian Falls.
Ron
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04-22-2006, 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Caradoc Welcome.
If you don't mind my asking, where did you get that particular word? I've only seen "feileadh-mor" once - in a document telling me not to use that particular phrasing because it was a backformation from "philibeg," back to "feileadh-beg," and thence to "feileadh-mhor" to differentiate it from the "small kilt."
"Breacan feile," or "bhreacain feileadh," or even "belted plaid" are more likely. | I got it from the glossary of terms in my "Early Highland Dress" text by Matt Newsome.
Basically I'm a lazy SOB who didn't want to call it a "great-kilt" so I used the first term I saw that meant the same thing. I usually call it "the belted plaid" or the "great-kilt". Besides based on Newsome's research it's entirely likely that the philibeg evolved around the same time as the great kilt so *shrug*
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04-22-2006, 04:05 AM
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04-22-2006, 05:35 AM
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Welcome to the party!
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04-22-2006, 06:26 AM
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Welcome aboard. I think I'm going to be coming through your area on the 29th of this month.
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04-22-2006, 06:46 AM
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It is always good to welcome another Carolinian to the forum.
I'm about an hour south of you.
Welcome to the xmarks.
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04-22-2006, 07:31 AM
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Welcome and enjoy.
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04-22-2006, 07:33 AM
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I already said it elsewhere, but welcome aboard! Kilt night at Jack o' the Wood Sunday April 23rd.
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