Kelt

Definition of kelt:

part of speech: adjective

Celtic, Keltic.

Usage examples for kelt:

• This homely material, which is still made in some parts of Scotland and Ireland, has in recent years been pronounced by fashion to be superior, for country wear, to the most finished products of the steam loom; so that now the most elegant ladies do not disdain to wear dresses of the self- same homespun of which our ancestors made their " kelt coats." "Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland", Daniel Scott.

• The imagination of the Kelt said Matthew Arnold, " with its passionate, turbulent, indomitable reaction against the despotism of fact" has never succeeded in producing a masterpiece of art. "Rome", Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker Hope Malleson.

• This is the brook Kelt by some supposed to be the Cherith of Elijah's history. "Byeways in Palestine", James Finn.

• Many writers make the Parisian a Roman on the strength of his language; whilst others make him a Kelt on the strength of certain moral characteristics, combined with the previous Kelticism of the original Gauls. "Critiques and Addresses", Thomas Henry Huxley.