The harbormaster is a young man, a quadroon, and was attired in a dark blue coat, brilliant with tarnished gold shoulder straps and trimmings and buttons, while his head was ornamented with a white cork hat, from the back of which depended a "pugaree" (a scarf or veil of white cloth worn around the hat, and much affected by the bloods of the tropics.) ❋ Alfred Brockenbrough Williams (1878)
Highness, a somewhat small man with exceedingly neat legs and an enormous white pugaree, in his customary gracious manner. ❋ T. R. Swinburne (N/A)
His thoughts went back to Purvis in his tweed clothes and the bowler bat with the pugaree on it, and he wondered how he fared in the scorching heat. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
But to no avail; the coolie was not to be frightened, nor even excited, by hat or pugaree. ❋ T. Phelan (N/A)
Following Hartley's Bearer, a small, thin boy came into the room, dressed in a white suit, with a tight white pugaree folded round his head. ❋ Marjorie Douie (N/A)
"I wonder if there'll be any trippers to-day," said Lettice Talbot, winding her towel artistically round her hat, and letting the ends fall like a pugaree. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)
I made my way to the square where the paper was printed, to find that, even there, the ground was closely strewn with calpac and pugaree, black abayeh and fringed praying-shawl, hob-nail and sandal, figured lungi and striped silk, all very muddled and mauled. ❋ Unknown (1906)
He wore a straw hat with a neat pugaree protecting the back of his neck, and his dress was a ❋ Arthur Machen (1905)
Outside the bath I hear the vehicles hurrying to market, and dressing quickly in white drill, and wearing on my Paumotu hat a brilliant scarlet pugaree, once the badge of subjugation to the Mohammedan conquerors of India, I join the procession. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
It was quite evident that some sort of headgear must be provided, so after trying a turban, which I found insufferably hot and heavy, one of the officers gave me his helmet, and wore the pugaree himself. ❋ Unknown (1891)
I withstood the tempting laces which were offered at wonderfully low prices, the quaint Egyptian curios, and managed to content myself by buying a sun hat, as everybody else did; and a pugaree to wind about it, as is customary in the East. ❋ Unknown (1890)
As he came within speaking distance he slightly raised his broad-brimmed pugaree-bound Panama hat, for a moment, exclaiming, in execrable Spanish: ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
That was to be my direction, if I could get out of the town, and I was calculating my chances of escape when a happy thought struck me -- to drape myself in a light curtain, and loosen the pugaree about my helmet. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
