glengarry

American  

[glen-gar-ee] / glɛnˈgær i /

noun

plural

glengarries

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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Etymology

Origin of glengarry

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

Example Sentences

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 Hay, Ian

Among the rest was a young fellow in oil-skins and a glengarry, which, being several sizes too big for him, fell low over his forehead and almost covered his eyes.

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

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 Waugh, Joseph Laing

As he was all boy in his games, he would never cherish anything but a boy-doll, generally a Highlander, in kilts and with a glengarry, that came off!

From A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs by Hutton, Laurence

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 Holmes, Daniel Turner