But we found an old "puggaree" of Rex's, of Constantinople days, fastened it on to my hat, and it answered perfectly. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1896)
Strange, looking back, to remember the pride I felt when Duff Mason gave a dinner for the garrison's best, and I stood by the buffet in my best grey coat and new red sash and puggaree, with my beard oiled, looking dignified and watching like a hawk as the khansamah and his crew scuttled round the candle-lit table with the courses. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I slipped into his shirt and cavalry breeches, drew on the soft boots, donned his hairy poshteen, * (* Sheepskin coat.) stuck the Khyber cleaver in my sash, and was winding the puggaree round my head and wishing I had a revolver as well, when Ilderim says thoughtfully: ❋ Unknown (2010)
For I was attired a la Kizil Kum still, in cloak and pyjamys and puggaree, with a bigger beard than Dr Grace. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)
"Bind thy puggaree round thy jaw at night, lest thou babble in English in thy sleep," says he at parting. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He was short and stout, and sat his pony like a hog on a hurdle; his pith helmet was wrapped in a long puggaree, and he wore a most peculiar loose cape, like an American poncho, clasped round with a snake-clasp belt. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I presented myself to another Pathan, very splendid in steel back-and-breast and long-tail puggaree, who commanded the gate guard, and sat sweating in the scorching sun while he sent off a messenger for the chamberlain. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Sick and fearful, I peeled off my puggaree and pushed my hair back. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Thereafter I was issued with a new puggaree, half-boots and pyjamy breeches, a new and very smart silver-grey uniform coat, a regulation sabre, a belt and bandolier, and a tangle of saddlery which was old and stiff enough to have been used at Waterloo (and probably had), and informed by a betel-chewing havildar that if I didn't have it reduced to gleaming suppleness by next morning, I had best look out. ❋ Unknown (2010)
After a couple of days, when I'd got the old Urdu bat rolling familiarly off my palate again, I even browned up and put on a puggaree* (* Turban.) and coat and pyjamys, and loafed about the Bund bazaar, letting on I was a Mekran coast trader, and listening to the clack. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I wound my puggaree tightly round head and chin, hiding half my face, slipped from my pocket the note which Rose and I had carefully prepared, walked firmly across to the sentry, and demanded to see the guard commander. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Helmets were white with blue pugarees or puggaree, pugree or pagri depending on how you spell it. ❋ Legatus Hedlius (2007)
And through a mist she saw his puggaree float out in the delicious breeze, and under one end of it a common man stop eating winkles, to stare up at her, as if he had seen a rainbow. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He looked so tall and aristocratic walking beside her, with his full beard, and a puggaree round his hat, and his white, green-lined umbrella. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On the way down to Twickenham he had to sit back to the horses on a narrow little seat that came out from below the high box, and was propped up with an iron stand; and he was so cross that it was quite a relief to them all three when they arrived, and dear Mr. Small met them at the gate, looking most manly in a puggaree and white trousers — ‘ducks,’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
On his head he had a sun-hat hung with puggaree and fly-veil: he also carried a sun-umbrella, green-lined; while a pair of dark goggles dimmed for him the intolerable whiteness of sky, road, iron roofs. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Before him cringed a couple of attendants, a chico held a coloured brolly over his head, and at a table near the beehive's entrance an ancient wallah in an enormous puggaree was studying charts through a magnifying glass, and making notes. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
I wrapped the puggaree well forward over my head, dirtied my face, put the bag with my civilised duds into a cleft in the garden wall, prayed that I might return to claim them, and sallied forth. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
He was a real Pathan mercenary, with iron moustaches and a nose like a hatchet - but he was dressed from top to toe, puggaree, * (* Turban.) robe, and pyjamys, in the red tartan of the 79th Highlanders! ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
