pugaree
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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"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 Brazil, Angela
His thoughts went back to Purvis in his tweed clothes and the bowler bat with the pugaree on it, and he wondered how he fared in the scorching heat.
From Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)
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 Douie, Marjorie
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 Middleton, Lydia Miller
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 Swinburne, T. R.
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