Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
puggree .
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- noun A
headdress worn by men inIndia .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That Mr. Sharif has a taste in sharp suits and designer salwar - kameezes is well-known, but it seems he cannot resist a good Rajasthani "pagri" (turban) when he sees one, as Mr.Jaswant Singh discovered.
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1930 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 22 Apr. 5/2 He has no British officers and no uniform except a distinguishing kind of pagri (head-dress).
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1930 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 22 Apr. 5/2 He has no British officers and no uniform except a distinguishing kind of pagri (head-dress).
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Brassbound I. 215 He wears the sun helmet and pagri, the neutral-tinted spectacles, and the white canvas Spanish sand shoes.
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Brassbound I. 215 He wears the sun helmet and pagri, the neutral-tinted spectacles, and the white canvas Spanish sand shoes.
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Perched on a black and white horse dressed in his ceremonial richly worked-on angarkha, laden with assorted jewels and with his trademark Maratha pagri (a community-specific headgear) placed on his head with just a hint of a tilt to its left he would ride down the city roads.
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Perched on a black and white horse dressed in his ceremonial richly worked-on angarkha, laden with assorted jewels and with his trademark Maratha pagri (a community-specific headgear) placed on his head with just a hint of a tilt to its left he would ride down the city roads.
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Helmets were white with blue pugarees or puggaree, pugree or pagri depending on how you spell it.
Archive 2007-08-01 legatus hedlius 2007
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Helmets were white with blue pugarees or puggaree, pugree or pagri depending on how you spell it.
Royal Naval Brigade: Uniforms: Officers legatus hedlius 2007
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An hour passed, and a melancholy, earth-coloured Indian loitered up the drive, dressed in a loin-cloth and a salmon-pink pagri on which a washing-basket was balanced.
Burmese Days 2002
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