"Puttee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... home made preferred, is indispensable for wear inside the regulation field shoe during all formal and informal promenades. It is a sign of gaucherie, however, to allow the top of either sock to protrude above the puttee or legging. Care should be taken that the socks fit the feet as snugly as possible, else ugly bunches will form at the heels and toes, thus robbing the gentle art of walking of all the pleasure which Henry Ford put ...
— The Stars & Stripes, Vol 1, No 1, February 8, 1918, - The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 • American Expeditionary Forces
... (bones of the leg) tibia, fibula, femur, thigh bone, epipodiale. Associated Words: crotch, hock, hough, solen, cradle, puttee, hip, thigh, haunch gyve, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... and remained so for some time, while I went on at my task, binding the strips of rug about my feet and ankles, and fastening them, puttee ...
— Ravensdene Court • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
... The style of leggings is the same as United States Army puttee legging. Made of best waterproof ...
— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America
... unlocked with a key attached to his identity disc. Inside the casket was a padlocked box, which he opened with a key attached by gold wire to his advance pay-book. Inside the box was a roll of silk. To cut it all short, he unwound puttee after puttee of careful wrapping till he reached a chamois-leather chrysalis, which he handled with extreme reverence, and from this he drew something with gentle fingers, and set it on the table-cloth before the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Sept. 12, 1917 • Various
... dressed much the same, wearing heavy boots, for which weight we were thankful, tight, puttee-like trousers, flaring at the top, and high-necked white blouses. Both of us were bare-headed. Doubtless we were as fantastic a sight to these Wandlites as they to us. Some of the workers crowded up, reaching out to pluck at us, ...
— Wandl the Invader • Raymond King Cummings |
