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Puttee

noun

(Written also putty, puttie)

A strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I.

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"Puttee" Quotes from Famous Books

... alterations and improvements have been inaugurated, old bustee lands have been reclaimed, on which handsome residences have been erected, new roads and thoroughfares have been opened out and built upon, and Lansdowne Road, formerly known as Peepal Puttee Rasta, has also been widened, improved; and extended almost beyond recognition. In addition an entirely new street at the extreme end of the road has been created ...

— Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century • Montague Massey

... stone wall. This man was a sun-browned, smooth-faced, pleasant-featured man of perhaps thirty-two or thirty-three years. Dressed in khaki trousers, with blue flannel shirt, sombrero and well-worn puttee leggings, he might have been mistaken for a soldier. Though his eyes were pleasant to look at, there was an expression of great shrewdness in them. The lines around his mouth bespoke the man's firmness. He was about five-feet-eight in height, slim and had the general bearing ...

— The Young Engineers in Colorado • H. Irving Hancock

Words linked to "Puttee" : leg covering, legging, leging