dungarees

Example Sentences

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Flannel is not required, neither are puggarees or white hats or sunshades at any season. 

From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

A great crowd is collected on the quay as the steamer warps up, above which rise sunshades coloured and coquettish, pith helmets and sweeping puggarees, and more orthodox white "stove-pipes."

From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram

The scouts holloaed, waved their puggarees, and then rode after the tiger as hard as they could press their active elephants.

From Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

They also wore Indian helmets with puggarees, while the mounted company were attired in the clothing suited to this, particular branch of the Service.

From The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland by Romer, Cecil Francis

The ladies were on deck, enjoying the morning air; the soldiers were having morning parade, and looked clean and smart in their white clothes and puggarees.

From Middy and Ensign by Rowlandson, G. D.