glengarry
[glen-gar-ee]
- 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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Origin of glengarry
First recorded in 1835–45; after Glengarry, a valley in Invernesshire, Scotland
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Historical Examples
Glengarry is actually marcht from Auchalator that way alreddy.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745.Mrs. Thomson
On the third day he was retraced to the lands of Glengarry, and there shot.
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The whole of the dogs at Glengarry House were allowed to go at liberty at all times.
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And there was another sorrowful household in Glengarry about that time.
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Glengarry tried to secure himself by a mysterious interview with the King.
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glengarry
- a brimless Scottish woollen cap with a crease down the crown, often with ribbons dangling at the backAlso called: glengarry bonnet
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Word Origin
C19: after Glengarry, Scotland
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