Kilts that aren't pleated?

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I believe if it's not pleated... It's a skirt...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines "kilt" as "A part of the modern Highland dress, consisting of a skirt or petticoat reaching from the waist to the knee: it is usually made of tartan cloth, and is deeply plaited round the back and sides; hence, any similar article of dress worn in other countries." The first attestation recorded is from c.1730, and clearly refers to a belted plaid, with folds or pleats; the next-cited is from 1746 - the prohibition of highland dress - and refers to "The...philebeg or little kilt."

The verb, "to kilt," has a much longer history, though, showing up as early as 1340 in reference to 'virtue kilted with power'; a fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary translates "to kylte" as succingere - normally translated as "to gird," that is, to encircle, or girdle (or fasten with a belt). But by 1887, at least, the word can specifically mean "To gather in vertical pleats, fastened at the top and free at the bottom, as in a kilt."

So .. yes. According to a long history of word use, a "kilt" has pleats, and is fastened - with belt, buckles, or even velcro - around the waist.