puggaree
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The boys were stoking up for the occasion with raw apples, and the girls were occupied, when not pursuing their restless father, in preparing a puggaree for his hat.
From Above the Snow Line by Clinton Thomas Dent
He wore a sombrero with a cherry-coloured puggaree and a bottle-green cape, and his green stockings turned over at the top so as to show knees as white and shapely as those of a woman.
From Fighting in Flanders by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
His slouch hat, with a white puggaree wrapped round it, lies on the table beside him.
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
Unwinding the puggaree from the Boer’s hat, he brought one of the ponies close alongside him, and putting out all his strength, lifted him into the saddle.
From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
The girl drew down her puggaree, with its soft, thin folds sheltering the pure contours of her face from the dust and burning sun-glare.
From The Bronze Bell by Louis Joseph Vance
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