pugaree
Americannoun
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Following Hartley's Bearer, a small, thin boy came into the room, dressed in a white suit, with a tight white pugaree folded round his head.
From The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery by Marjorie Douie
He wore a straw hat with a neat pugaree protecting the back of his neck, and his dress was a Norfolk jacket and knickers in heather mixture.
From The House of Souls by Arthur Machen
Here we were welcomed by His Highness, a somewhat small man with exceedingly neat legs and an enormous white pugaree, in his customary gracious manner.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne
"I wonder if there'll be any trippers to-day," said Lettice Talbot, winding her towel artistically round her hat, and letting the ends fall like a pugaree.
From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Angela Brazil
I did," Mollie answered, as she unwound the pugaree and took off her patient's sock, "I coo-eed ever so often—oh, dear me! that is a bad foot!
From The Happy Adventurers by Lydia Miller Middleton
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