pugree

American  

[puhg-ree] / ˈpʌg ri /

noun

1. a light turban worn in India.

2. a scarf of silk or cotton, usually colored or printed, wound round a hat or helmet and falling down behind as a protection against the sun.

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Etymology

Origin of pugree

First recorded in 1655–65, pugree is from the Hindi word pagṛī turban

Example Sentences

A simple dhootee and dubjah, with perhaps an �lkh�l� on the back and a folded pugree on the head, constituted the dress of a Bengali not long before the battle of Plassey.

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As becomes their maturer years, they are satisfied with a decent broadcloth coat and pantaloon, with a white cloth or Cashmere shawl pugree, more in accordance with simple English taste.

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He had left his helmet behind him, and wore only a khaki pugree with a khaki 'kula' in the centre of it.

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Young Tom Marshall, who honored Miss Minion's with his presence, studying the photograph on my bureau one evening, asked me who was "the beauty with the pugree."

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I seemed to be corresponding with the inhabitant of another planet, and when I looked at the girl on the camel, with the strange pugree flowing from her hat, and the pyramids in the background, it seemed that she could not be the same simple girl who had painted tulips on black plaques.

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