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Philabeg   Listen
noun
Philabeg  n.  See Filibeg.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Philabeg" Quotes from Famous Books



... perfection of their taste, ordained that the 79th and 42d Regiments should in future, in lieu of their respective tartans, wear flannel kilts and black worsted hose, I could readily have fallen into the error of mistaking Mrs. Dalrymple for a field officer in the new regulation dress; the philabeg finding no mean representation in a capacious pincushion that hung down from her girdle, while a pair of shears, not scissors, corresponded to the dirk. After several ineffectual efforts on her part to make her vestment (I know not its fitting designation) cover more of her legs than ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... countenance. He wore his tartan thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black ribbon like a cockade, a brown short coat, a tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button holes, a bluish philabeg, and tartan hose. At once he took precedence among his countrymen, becoming their leader and adviser. The Macdonalds, by 1775, were so numerous in Cumberland county as to be called the "Clan Donald," and the insurrection of February, ...
— An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America • J. P. MacLean



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