Puggree

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A cloth band or scarf wrapped around the crown of a hat or sun helmet.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A strip of cloth wound around the upper portion of a hat or helmet, particularly a pith helmet, and falling down behind to act as a shade for the back of the neck.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as pugree.
  • Word Usage
    "Englishmen, which was easy to gather from their picturesque and unusual attire of neat gray small-clothes meeting gray stockings at the knee, low white shoes, a striped blue and white flannel shirt and canoe-shaped hats of gray, each bearing a snow-white "puggree" with blue and gold fringed ends."
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