puggree
Britishnoun
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the usual Indian word for turban
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a scarf, usually pleated, around the crown of some hats, esp sun helmets
Etymology
Origin of puggree
C17: from Hindi pagrī, from Sanskrit parikara
Example Sentences
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Now he is taking off his puggree and pretending to take a handkerchief out and mopping his bald head.”
From Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills by Groome, William H. C.
Some of them are prickly, and as the elephant slowly forces his way through the mass of pendent swaying cords, they lacerate and tear the mahout's clothes and skin, and appropriate his puggree.
From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James
They were courteous people, and not only refused the quarter dollar which I pressed upon them, but gave me a handkerchief full of bananas when I left them, being pleased, however, to accept a puggree.
From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
Especially one with the white puggree, With a down; For it's precious hard to divide by three A sum on whose total you can't agree, With a down derry, derry down!
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Furniss, Harry
He provides himself with a more magnificent cumberbund, enlarges the border of gold thread on his puggree, and furbishes up his English that he may converse pleasantly with mem saheb.
From Behind the Bungalow by Aitken, Edward Hamilton
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