puggaree

English

Noun

puggaree (plural puggarees)

1. 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