puggree

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/ˈpʌɡɹiː/

A form of puggry — A strip of cloth wound around the upper portion of a hat or helmet, particularly a pith helmet, and falling down behind to act as a shade for the back of the neck.

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Meanings

nounpuggree (plural puggrees)

plural puggrees

  1. alternativeAlternative form of puggry.

    Hand-wrapped puggaree hat-band. Ideal for gardening, hiking or exploring forgotten tombs. -- commercial site with illustration

    1888: I recognised the eldest Miss Copleigh, because she had a puggree round her helmet, and the younger had not. — Rudyard Kipling, ‘False Dawn’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 36)
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    The head was supported by a neck, long, pinched, and weazeny, and was surmounted by a somewhat worn and ragged puggree, from the sides of which a few straggling grey hairs escaped

    1867, J. T. Newell, Hog Hunting in the East: And Other Sports
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APA

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Chicago

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