Lexicographical Neighbors of Pugrees
Literary usage of Pugrees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum: For the Public Functionary by John Borthwick Gilchrist (1825)
"... nor take off their pugrees, or turbans ; this last act being understood by
them aa an insult, figuratively equal to depriving them of their heads. we ..."
2. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"Drees pieces, called " pugrees," for turbans, manufactured in the dominions of,
and contributed by, ..."
3. Overland to China by Archibald Ross Colquhoun (1900)
"Their get-up—impossible helmets and gorgeous pugrees, bright binoculars and new
revolvers, dainty footgear and delicate-colored gloves —was rather that of ..."
4. Overland to China by Archibald Ross Colquhoun (1900)
"Their get-up—impossible helmets and gorgeous pugrees, bright binoculars and new
revolvers, dainty footgear and delicate-colored gloves —was rather that of ..."
5. Present-day Egypt by Frederic Courtland Penfield (1903)
"Here and there were met straggling tourists, some wearing sun- helmets and pugrees
fresh from New Bond Street, returning to their hotels from moderate ..."
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