puggaree
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Noun
puggaree (plural puggarees)
- Alternative form of puggry
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 25:
- We did not even possess "two coats apiece" - our ordinary costume being waterproof monkey jackets, sailor hats with puggarees twined round them, and some simple white muslin or fresh cotton dresses.
- 1894, Rudyard Kipling, William the Conqueror:
- a blue-grey felt hat with a gold puggaree
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