kilt, toga, kelter /kilter/akilter, skirl, out of kilter

Brutal scenes of blood-soaked lambs killed by dogs in Britain's fields have become more common in lockdown

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More killings of sheep by dogs shows Britain's delicate rural balance is out of kilter

Bill Millin, piper at the D-Day landings, died on August 17th 2010, aged 88. The whining skirl of the pipes struck such dread into the Germans on the Somme that they called the kilted pipers “Ladies from Hell”http://econ.st/1MxhpKD

Bill Millin

ANY reasonable observer might have thought Bill Millin was unarmed as he jumped off the landing ramp at Sword Beach, in Normandy, on June 6th 1944. Unlike his...

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This Tokyo office was left in disarray after the
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skirl

skəːl/

noun

1. 1.

   a shrill, wailing sound, especially that of bagpipes.

   "we heard a skirl of the pipes"

verb

1. 1.

   (of bagpipes) produce a shrill, wailing sound.

   "the pipes skirled and moaned down the street"

kilt

kɪlt/

verb

past tense: kilted; past participle: kilted

1. 1.

   gather (a garment or material) in vertical pleats.

   "kilted skirts"
2. 2.

   tuck up one's skirts around one's body.

kelter =kilter
(kĭl'tər)
n.
Good condition; proper form: "policy 'adjustments' designed to bring the . . . country's economy back into kilter with the Western economic system" (Edward Zuckerman).

[Origin unknown.]

"If you are talking or thinking or anything about that dress, stop it now."

Right before the end of the Empire, Rome had a lengthy debate over the color of a toga

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togaLine breaks: toga

Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊɡə/Definition of toga in English:

noun

A loose flowing outer garment wornby the citizensof ancient Rome, made of a single piece of cloth and covering the whole body apart from the right arm.