glengarry

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Upon the lid lie a very dingy glengarry, a stained leather belt, and a bayonet.

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  1. A Scotch cap of wool, either woven in one piece or made of cloth. It has erect sides, a hollow or crease on the top, and diminishes in height toward the back, where the band is slit or parted and fitted with a pair of short ribbons, which are usually crossed and permitted to hang down. On his head was the Highland bonnet called a glengarry. Geo. MacDonald, What's Mine's Mine, p. 23.

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  • The poem came out of that day-long visit poet Wanda O'Connor and I had with him and his wife Ann, before Wanda moved to Montreal to attend Concordia University's creative writing program, and the extended piece has been added at the end of a long poem that titles an unpublished manuscript, "glengarry: open field," and selected as well down to twenty or so pieces by Meredith Quartermain to be published as the chapbook —  rob mclennan's blog
  • Now, however, the hank was too complicated to give way to a twitch, for the glengarry held hard on to the heather. —  The Eagle Cliff
  • Upon the lid lie a very dingy glengarry, a stained leather belt, and a bayonet. —  The First Hundred Thousand
  • I was wearin' kilt, glengarry, and all the costume for the swab germ' corporal o' Hielanders in "She's Ma Daisy." —  Between You and Me
  • On his head was the highland bonnet called a glengarry. —  What's Mine's Mine — Complete
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  1. Named from Glengarry, a valley of Inverness-shire, Scotland.
 

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