glengarry
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.
Origin of glengarry
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How to use glengarry in a sentence
The man who wrote glengarry Glen Ross actually and unironically references "the current economic jollity."
The author of glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow is, to many minds, the best living American playwright.
It might be a portrait of Hendry or Sander bonneted in his glengarry, armed with a target, and trekking off with two terriers.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyI can see him now as he waved me a good-bye from the platform in his glengarry cap and short tunic and plaid trousers.
A Traveller in War-Time | Winston ChurchillThe first attacks of the glengarry Highlanders and the regular troops were repulsed with great loss of life.
The Last Laird of MacNab | Various
On the north side the mountains of glengarry shot up in a succession of high and bold peaks.
A Yacht Voyage Round England | W.H.G. KingstonSo he lifted his smart glengarry cap, and in sad perplexity strode away.
Cripps, the Carrier | R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
British Dictionary definitions for glengarry
/ (ɡlɛnˈɡærɪ) /
a brimless Scottish woollen cap with a crease down the crown, often with ribbons dangling at the back: Also called: glengarry bonnet
Origin of glengarry
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