puggaree
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He is a bony, lantern-jawed young man, in velveteen jacket, with a puggaree round his hat.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93. September 17, 1887 by Various
It was just a strip of white muslin wound around the head like an East Indian puggaree.
From Jimmy, Lucy, and All by May, Sophie
Now I'm none of your bashful John Bulls who don't know a pilau from a puggaree Nor a chili, by George, from a chopstick.
From The Heptalogia by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
He wears a slouch hat, around which a green puggaree coils lovingly.
From Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front by Hales, A. G. (Alfred Greenwood)
Picture him then in a loose red flannel tunic, corduroy knee-breeches, serge leggings, white pith helmet with a puggaree round it.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Paget, Walter
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