The Collaborative International Dictionary
Usage examples of "puggaree".
The talk was all maintained between her, a gentleman with a crumpled collar and puggaree, and a short thick-set grey-bearded man in a dark Norfolk jacket.
The small cap with its insufficient puggaree is replaced by the pith helmet, the shade of which is increased by a long quilted covering.
The little southerner was not formally a fighting man, but his face was black with powder smoke under his cap and puggaree, and the Komar-made pepperpot pistol stuck through his sash had seen use this day.
A turn in the creek showed us another flying figure ahead--that of a man, well mounted, his white shirt inflated by the wind, and his puggaree streaming straight.
Round his Jim Crow hat a puggaree was twisted, and he bore on his back a very large swag.
A few paces behind him was a most dignified Indian in a white puggaree and a long blue shirt over baggy white trousers.
Here and there in towns which were off the railway line, in Barkly East or Ladygrey, the farmers met together with rifle and bandolier, tied orange puggarees round their hats, and rode off to join the enemy.
Horse with the black plumes, some with pink puggarees, some with birdseye, but all of the same type, hard, rugged, and alert.
There were grizzled men and men of fair complexion, men in white helmets and puggarees, and men in silk hats.
They all make a terrible fuss over their kit and their puggarees and their belongings, and refuse to budge without them.
Horse with the black plumes, some with pink puggarees, some with birdseye, but all of the same type, hard, rugged, and alert.
She had passed on to him also her finc looks, classical Teutonic features, and the dense curls that now hung to his shoulders from under the wide terai hat with the waving bunch of ostrich feathers stuck jauntily in the puggaree.