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

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Etymology

Origin of glengarry

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

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Example Sentences

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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

Upon the lid lie a very dingy glengarry, a stained leather belt, and a bayonet.

From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay

They came to the pavement to play marbles, and then Tommy noticed that one of them wore what was probably a glengarry bonnet.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

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 Ian Hay

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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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

From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay

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

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