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glengarry
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glengarry \Glen*gar"ry\, n., or Glengarry bonnet \Glen*gar"ry bon"net\ [Name of a valley in Scotland.] A kind of Highland Scotch cap for men, with straight sides and a hollow top sloping to the back, where it is parted and held together by ribbons or strings.
The long silk streamers of his Glengarry bonnet.
--L.
Hutton.
Wikipedia
The glengarry bonnet is a traditional Scots cap made of thick-milled woollen material, decorated with a toorie on top, frequently a rosette cockade on the left side, and with ribbons hanging down behind. It is normally worn as part of Scottish military or civilian Highland dress, either formal or informal, as an alternative to the Balmoral bonnet or tam o' shanter. The Royal Regiment of Scotland wears the glengarry with diced band and black cock feathers as its ceremonial headdress.
Glengarry was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1917, and from 1925 to 1953. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867, and consisted of Glengarry county.
The electoral district was abolished in 1914 when it was merged into Glengarry and Stormont riding.
It was recreated in 1924, consisting again of the county of Glengarry.
The electoral district was abolished in 1952 when it was merged into Glengarry—Prescott ridings.
A Glengarry is a boat-shaped cap without a peak made of thick-milled woollen material.
Glengarry may also refer to any of the following:
Glengarry was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of Ontario, active from 1867 to 1975, which elected one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The district roughly corresponded to the territory of Glengarry County.
In the electoral redistribution of 1975, Glengarry was merged into Stormont—Dundas and Glengarry.
Usage examples of "glengarry".
He had a pale face with large black eyes and dark hair partly covered with a Glengarry bonnet set rakishly over one ear.
The boy was dressed in kilts, with the Campbell plaid flung over his shoulder and a spray of evergreen pine nodding gayly from his Glengarry bonnet.
The Prince, it seemed, was at Lancaster, and Lord George and the Glengarry men and the Appin Stewarts half-way between that town and Preston.
Along with your title, I award to you the lands that stretch from Callender in Perthshire to the land from Sterling to the Clyde, and I appoint you laird of all the MacDonald clans in Glengarry, who have long been with out a leader.
Auchnacarrie, where the prince was joined by the Macdonalds of Glencoe, a hundred and fifty strong, two hundred Stuarts of Appin under their chief, and by the younger Glengarry with two hundred more, so that the force had now swelled to sixteen hundred men.
Martin Lennox had been a captain in the Glengarry Light Infantry Regiment of Fencibles at the time and received a grant of eight hundred acres.
He had arranged that a body of young Jacobite officers in foreign service, with four hundred Highlanders under young Glengarry, should overpower the Guards, break into St.
Next day Glengarry would post north, the Highlanders would muster at the House of Touch, and Charles would appear among his beloved subjects.
Portsmouth road, convenient for the coast, was the very place for Prince Charles to lurk in, while Murray and Glengarry cleared the way to the throne.
Invergarry, the castle of the laird of Glengarry, and continued his journey into the west Highlands, where he found shelter in a village called Glenbeisdale, near where he had landed on his expedition for the conquest of England.
It was the country of Lochiel, Glengarry, and other Jacobite chiefs, and was filled with soldiers, diligently seeking the leaders of the insurrection.
The Glengarry Massacre of 1542 had become part of Scottish myth and legend, as well as history.
Miles MacDonell, retired from the Glengarry Regiment, has been appointed by Selkirk governor of the new colony.
He had matched Tassa Kay shot for shot, trading tips, technical facts and history in between rounds of Glengarry amber.
We chose Glen Kingie, and after a long climb found a torrent that took us down to Glengarry before sunset.