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Definition of "puggree" []

  • A cloth band or scarf wrapped around the crown of a hat or sun helmet. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "puggree" in a sentence
  • "Englishmen, which was easy to gather from their picturesque and unusual attire of neat gray small-clothes meeting gray stockings at the knee, low white shoes, a striped blue and white flannel shirt and canoe-shaped hats of gray, each bearing a snow-white "puggree" with blue and gold fringed ends."
  • "Dec. 741 A silk coat, a puggree, boots, and white cords, adorned the wealthier."
  • "Hence pugg (a) reed a., covered with or wearing a puggree."