puggaree
Americannoun
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And here and there, elderly but erect, natty of attire, and countenance darkly sunburnt beneath the turbanlike puggaree enshrouding his summit, stalked unmistakably the half-pay Anglo-Indian.
From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford
Their headgear was a cap of any kind, wrapped round and round with the thick folds of a brown puggaree.
From In Times of Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
On his head was a tall black hat, the puggaree had been impounded by one of his captors.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
He took the puggaree from his hat, and tying the ends together, he slung it over her front pommel.
From The Tragedy of the Korosko by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Up and on we panted, Jane partly supported by having the bight of the shikari's puggaree round her waist while he towed her by the ends.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne
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