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

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

I was wearin' kilt, glengarry, and all the costume for the swab germ' corporal o' Hielanders in "She's Ma Daisy."

From Between You and Me by Sir Harry Lauder

"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

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

M'Slattery led the whole Battalion, his glengarry high in the air.

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

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