Log in or Sign up
  1. pagri love

Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See puggree.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A headdress worn by men in India.

Etymologies

  1. Punjabi ਪਗੜੀ (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “That Mr. Sharif has a taste in sharp suits and designer salwar - kameezes is well-known, but it seems he cannot resist a good Rajasthani "pagri" (turban) when he sees one, as Mr.Jaswant Singh discovered.”

    The Hindu - Front Page

  • “1930 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 22 Apr. 5/2 He has no British officers and no uniform except a distinguishing kind of pagri (head-dress).”

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1156

  • “Brassbound I. 215 He wears the sun helmet and pagri, the neutral-tinted spectacles, and the white canvas Spanish sand shoes.”

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1156

  • “Perched on a black and white horse dressed in his ceremonial richly worked-on angarkha, laden with assorted jewels and with his trademark Maratha pagri (a community-specific headgear) placed on his head with just a hint of a tilt to its left he would ride down the city roads.”

    Muharram of my childhood

  • “Helmets were white with blue pugarees or puggaree, pugree or pagri depending on how you spell it.”

    Royal Naval Brigade: Uniforms: Officers

  • “An hour passed, and a melancholy, earth-coloured Indian loitered up the drive, dressed in a loin-cloth and a salmon-pink pagri on which a washing-basket was balanced.”

    Burmese Days

  • “Sammy, seeing himself detected, looked very guilty and pretended to be rearranging his pagri.”

    Burmese Days

  • “He was dressed in khaki pagri-cloth shirt, drill shorts and a pigsticker topi.”

    Burmese Days

  • “He looked so splendidly manly, with his pagri-cloth shirt open at the throat, and his shorts and puttees and shooting boots!”

    Burmese Days

  • “Then his eyes focused on the khaki pagri and dark face of”

    Burmese Days

Show 10 more examples...

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘pagri’.

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for pagri.

‘pagri’ has been looked up 541 times, added to 2 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 8.