pugaree

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.)

The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects. Alfred Brockenbrough Williams 1878

Highness, a somewhat small man with exceedingly neat legs and an enormous white pugaree, in his customary gracious manner.

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

But to no avail; the coolie was not to be frightened, nor even excited, by hat or pugaree.

The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

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.

The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery Marjorie Douie

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.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

"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.

The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life 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.

The Purple Cloud 1906

He wore a straw hat with a neat pugaree protecting the back of his neck, and his dress was a

The House of Souls 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.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. 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.

My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny 1891