What is "kilted"

Usage examples of "kilted".

Leaning out of this aperture was an old woman, who was listening with interest to the conversation between Tabaea and the kilted man.

She knew she had stabbed the kilted drunk in his left leg, so the connection was obvious.

Everyone else in her throne room had white hair, the only exception being a similarly youthful kilted Arum, who was chained to a marble column at one side of the dais.

Rheud, the kilted, red-bearded armorer asked when they all trooped in through the door to his arms room.

Althalus showed the kilted Arum Chief the dining hall and the bedrooms.

Twengor asked when one of his kilted clansmen escorted Althalus and Eliar into the room where the burly Chief crouched beside a window.

The first kilted Highlanders were already scrambling up the rungs, but then a man was hit by a bullet from the flanking bastion and he stopped, clung to the ladder, then slowly toppled sideways.

A volley of musketry made the defenders duck and when the smoke cleared Sharpe saw that the kilted officer was again ascending the ladder, this time without his tall hat.

A third man crossed, the fourth was killed, and then another man was on the wall and the Scotsmen screamed their war cries as they began the grim job of clearing the defenders off the fire step Sharpe could hear the clash of blades on the wall, and see a cloud of powder smoke above the crenellations where the Scots of the 74th were fighting their way along the parapet, but he could see nothing on the bastion where the kilted 778th were fighting.

The Arabs might come from a hard, warlike country, but so did the kilted men who came snarling into the city.

Kill him, he silently urged the Arabs in the bastion, but the young officer jumped down and began laying about him with his claymore, and suddenly there were more kilted Scotsmen crossing the wall.

A half company of kilted redcoats followed the sepoys and Sharpe assumed that Wellesley had ordered the picquets of the day into the city.

Wellesley rode first to the left of his line where the kilted Highlanders of the 778th waited in line.

A bouncing shell came to rest near the grenadier company that was on the right of the 778this line and the kilted soldiers skipped aside, all but for one man who dashed out of the front rank as the missile spun crazily on the ground with its fuse spitting out a tangle of smoke.

An officer led an attack on a knot of standard-bearers who tried desperately to save their flags, but the Scots would not be denied and Sharpe watched as the kilted men stepped over the dead to lunge their blades at the living.