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Definition of Puggree

1. pugree [n -S] - See also: pugree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Puggree

Literary usage of Puggree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in India by Vivian Dering Majendie (1859)
"Mosquitoes—The disembarkation—Harpies—Sore trial of temper—"puggree" to the rescue !—A brief retrospective review of ..."

2. Tent Life in Tigerland: With which is Incorporated Sport and Work on the by James Inglis (1892)
"... bag—Start for factory— Remarks on elephants—Precautions useful for protection from the sun in tiger shooting—The puggree—Cattle breeding in India, ..."

3. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier: Or, Twelve Years Sporting by James Inglis (1878)
"The puggree.—Cattle breeding in India, and wholesale deaths of cattle from disease. ... puggree ..."

4. The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B. by Sir William Francis Patrick Napier (1857)
"Who gets this puggree turban is to me moonshine, because they really have no fixed rule; hitherto it has gone through the brother, and then to the eldest ..."

5. The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B. by William Francis Patrick Napier (1857)
"Who gets this puggree turban is to me moonshine, because they really have no fixed rule; hitherto it has gone through the brother, and then to the eldest ..."

6. The Book of Health by Malcolm Alexander Morris (1883)
"labour, and toil under a sun which would soon prove fatal to his Aryan brother from the West, always shields the head by means of a puggree of cotton or ..."

7. The Book of Health by Malcolm Alexander Morris (1883)
"labour, and toil under a sun which would soon prove fatal to his Aryan brother from the West, always shields the head by means of a puggree of cotton or ..."

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