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- noun Plural form of
puttee .
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Examples
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She wore a stunning flying suit of plum-colored satin, from the hood covering her raven hair to her knickers and the cloth leggings, called puttees, which wrapped her legs from knee to ankle.
The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985
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She wore a stunning flying suit of plum-colored satin, from the hood covering her raven hair to her knickers and the cloth leggings, called puttees, which wrapped her legs from knee to ankle.
The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985
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She wore a stunning flying suit of plum-colored satin, from the hood covering her raven hair to her knickers and the cloth leggings, called puttees, which wrapped her legs from knee to ankle.
The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985
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She wore a stunning flying suit of plum-colored satin, from the hood covering her raven hair to her knickers and the cloth leggings, called puttees, which wrapped her legs from knee to ankle.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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She wore a stunning flying suit of plum-colored satin, from the hood covering her raven hair to her knickers and the cloth leggings, called puttees, which wrapped her legs from knee to ankle.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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She wore a stunning flying suit of plum-colored satin, from the hood covering her raven hair to her knickers and the cloth leggings, called puttees, which wrapped her legs from knee to ankle.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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She wore a stunning flying suit of plum-colored satin, from the hood covering her raven hair to her knickers and the cloth leggings, called puttees, which wrapped her legs from knee to ankle.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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"puttees" -- thick pigskin leggings which gave his long limbs quite a substantial appearance and himself no end of comfort.
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924
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He stood there, in Norfolk jacket, pigskin puttees, and all the rest of the fashionable get-up out of a bandbox, sneering at me covered with filth and grease to the eyebrows and looking like a navvy.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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Bertie was ripe for the cocktail which Mr. Harriwell pitched in and compounded for him; but before he could drink it, a man in riding trousers and puttees entered.
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