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

With a horrible sickness at heart I recognized amongst other emblems a glengarry with a silver badge and a British steel helmet with a gaping hole through the crown.

From The Man with the Clubfoot by Valentine Williams

The very sight of a newcomer in a speckless suit, with an irreproachable tie and both tails on his glengarry bonnet, excited a profound emotion in the school and carried it beyond self-control.

From Young Barbarians by Ian Maclaren

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 Joseph Laing Waugh

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

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

He was a kilted country squire, tall, thin, and soulful: on his head was a glengarry with a pair of flying ribbons.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes

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 Ian Hay

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

From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay