puggree

English[edit]

puggree (plural puggrees)

Alternative form of puggry
- 1867, J. T. Newell, Hog Hunting in the East: And Other Sports:
  The head was supported by a neck, long, pinched, and weazeny, and was surmounted by a somewhat worn and ragged puggree, from the sides of which a few straggling grey hairs escaped
- 1888: I recognised the eldest Miss Copleigh, because she had a puggree round her helmet, and the younger had not. — Rudyard Kipling, ‘False Dawn’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 36)
  Hand-wrapped puggaree hat-band. Ideal for gardening, hiking or exploring forgotten tombs. -- commercial site with illustration