glengarry

American  

[glen-gar-ee] / glɛnˈgær i /

noun

• glengarries
  plural

1. a Scottish cap with straight sides, a crease along the top, and sometimes short ribbon streamers at the back, worn by Highlanders as part of military dress.

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glengarry British  

/ ɡlɛnˈɡærɪ /

noun

1. Also called: glengarry bonnet.  a brimless Scottish woollen cap with a crease down the crown, often with ribbons dangling at the back

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• glengarries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of glengarry

First recorded in 1835–45; after Glengarry, a valley in Invernesshire, Scotland

Example Sentences

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glengarry glengarries

"Who have we here at all?" he said, trying to tip up the glengarry.

From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir

At one time he used to stand by the sentry, with an ancient glengarry crammed over his bullet head, and conform meticulously to his comrade's slightest movement.

From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian

I knew the scoundrels instantly by their dress, and not less easily did I recognise a countryman in the grey tweed shooting coat, glengarry cap, and knickerbockers of the other.

From In the Track of the Troops by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Got up early in the morning of St. Patrick's Day; provided himself with handful of shamrock, which he stuck in his glengarry.

From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, April 2, 1892 by Various

Joe's jacket is always closely buttoned, and he wears his tweed cap tilted on his head at the same angle as he would his glengarry when on parade.

From Betty Grier by Waugh, Joseph Laing

Nothing but a great parterre of glengarries, perched upon the mud in long parallel rows, each glengarry flanked on the left-hand side by the muzzle of a rifle at the slope.

From The First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian

Beside the glengarries there are countless flat caps—line regiments, territorials, gunners, and sappers.

From The First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian