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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Dressmaking)

A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one.

kilting

kilting ‎(plural kiltings)

A method of vertically arranging flat plaits such that each plait is folded so as to cover half the of the one before it.