An alternative to "gentlemen"

[Alan H]

There is something delightfully ironic and wryly amusing about being this writer being recommended to consult a dictionary less than ten years old...

...on a forum devoted to an ancient item of clothing and which forum characterizes itself on having deep respect for historical and cultural precedents, definitions, practices and traditions.

In fact a significant amount of the forum is devoted to contemporary kilts, which were more or less "invented"...or "adapted"... in the late 1990's.

You still might want to invest in that <10 year old dictionary.