puggarees

When I saw them near I had a strange sense of recognition - those swarthy faces, with here and there a hooked nose and a straggling moustache, the dirty puggarees swathed round the heads, and the open belted robes, took me back to Northern India and the Afghan hills.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

They came back now, though, in full force, as we staggered along; I was about as tuckered. is he was, my head was swimming, and I must have Livered the last mile in a walking dream, because the next thing I remember is bearded faces barring our way, and blue-tunicked troopers with white puggarees, and thinking, "These arc 9th Lancers."

Fiancée 2010

They looked as always like revellers at a fancy-dress ball, in red puggarees, green puggarees, violet caps, jackets and pan taloons of every shape and hue.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

There were troops on the move all the way: I recognised the blue and silver of the 3rd Native Cavalry, the brown puggarees and cotton robes of the Punjabi Pioneers with their picks and shovels at the slope, and the celebrated coats of many colours of the motley crowd of border ruffians, Sikhs, Pathans, Punjabis, and the like, who composed the famous 10th Native Infantry.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

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

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

But that was small consolation, and I was considering the wild notion of crawling down to the corpse-littered bank, finding a piece of timber, and floating down to Ferozepore ghat, when out of the dawn mist came the prettiest sight I'd seen that year - the blue tunics and red puggarees of a troop of Native Cavalry, with a pink little cornet at their head.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Behind them were the blue puggarees and white pants of the Bengali Irregulars, and before the Sikhs knew what was up Joe was rising in his stirrups, waving his sabre, and the 3rd Lights were sweeping down the rear of the gun positions, brushing aside the supporting infantry, sabring and riding down everything in their path.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Sure enough, after a moment back came the Tartars, flying in disorder and scattering across the plain, and out of the haze behind them came a thundering line of grey tunics and red puggarees, lances lowered, and behind I saw the red coats of the heavies, the Dragoon Guards.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

I was croaking with hope, expecting any moment to see the beards and puggarees and lance-heads galloping into view, when I was dragged from my cage and hauled before an armoured horseman.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

There were advance parties from all the regiments; the first thing I saw was Sikh riders in the red puggarees of Fane's Horse and the blue of Probyn's, tent-pegging on the beach, with white troopers cheering 'em on — and to my astonishment they were Dragoon Guards.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985