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Glengarry   /glˌɛngˈɛri/   Listen
Glengarry

noun
1.
A Scottish cap with straight sides and a crease along the top from front to back; worn by Highlanders as part of military dress.





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"Glengarry" Quotes from Famous Books



... blue striped cotton shirt, of very coarse quality, and a pair of corduroys, strapped round his waist with a scarlet belt. Over these he wore a pair of blue cloth leggins, neatly bound with orange-coloured ribbon. A Glengarry bonnet covered his head; and two pairs of flannel socks, under a pair of raw seal-skin shoes, protected his feet from the cold. His burden consisted of my carpet-bag, two days' provisions, and a blue cloth ...
— Hudson Bay • R.M. Ballantyne
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... a very fine dog of this kind, which was given to him by his friend Macdonnel of Glengarry, the chief of one of the Highland clans. His name ...
— Parker's Second Reader • Richard G. Parker
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... all boy in his games, he would never cherish anything but a boy-doll, generally a Highlander, in kilts and with a glengarry, that came off! And although he became foreman of a juvenile hook-and-ladder company before he was five, and would not play with girls at all, he had one peculiar feminine weakness. His grand passion was washing and ironing. And Ann Hughes used to let him do ...
— A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs • Laurence Hutton
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... type, who soon let us know with many haw-haws that they had fished in Norway, and had killed salmon on the estate of my Lord Knowswho in Scotland, while guests of that nobleman. There were two Londoners in full suits of tweed, with Glengarry bonnets, who were bound to the Cascapediac: they tried to imitate the bearing of the military men; and why not? As Thackeray says, "Am I not a snob and a brother?" There was a party of Americans on their way to a Gaspe river—veteran anglers, who had frequented these rivers for ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 • Various
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