Definition of "puggaree" [pug•ga•ree]

• Puggree (noun)

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• "But we found an old "puggaree" of Rex's, of Constantinople days, fastened it on to my hat, and it answered perfectly."
• "Strange, looking back, to remember the pride I felt when Duff Mason gave a dinner for the garrison's best, and I stood by the buffet in my best grey coat and new red sash and puggaree, with my beard oiled, looking dignified and watching like a hawk as the khansamah and his crew scuttled round the candle-lit table with the courses."
• "After a couple of days, when I'd got the old Urdu bat rolling familiarly off my palate again, I even browned up and put on a puggaree* (* Turban.) and coat and pyjamys, and loafed about the Bund bazaar, letting on I was a Mekran coast trader, and listening to the clack."