philibeg
Noun
Meaning
See Filibeg.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
knickerbockers
clothes
boxer
jockey
smalls
pants
shorts
trousers
jeans
drawers
tights
knickers
kilt
overalls
unmentionables
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A version of the filleadh beag (philibeg), or small kilt (also known as the walking kilt) similar to the modern kilt was invented by an English Quaker from Lancashire named Thomas Rawlinson sometime in the 1720s.
From there its use spread "in the shortest space" amongst the Highlanders, and even amongst some of the Northern Lowlanders.sfn It has been suggested there is evidence that the philibeg with unsewn pleats was worn from the 1690s. citation.