puttee
a long strip of cloth wound spirally round the leg from ankle to knee, worn especially formerly as part of a soldier's uniform.
a gaiter or legging of leather or other material, as worn by soldiers, riders, etc.
Origin of puttee
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How to use puttee in a sentence
Would you kindly look in my unpainted tin-lined box and get me out a pair of khaki puttees.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton LaurieHow dreadfully these puttees and haversacks debase even the most beautiful figures.
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton MackenzieFrom his campaign hat to his polished puttees, he was new, new like the lately minted coin that has not long circulated.
The Code of the Mountains | Charles Neville BuckHe wore tan boots and leather puttees, and carried a hunting crop in his hand.
The Riddle of the Mysterious Light | Mary E. HanshewThe trenches were a veritable Golgotha with skulls everywhere and dismembered legs still clad with puttees and boots.
War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit Roosevelt
British Dictionary definitions for puttee
putty
/ (ˈpʌtɪ) /
(usually plural) a strip of cloth worn wound around the legs from the ankle to the knee, esp as part of a military uniform in World War I
Origin of puttee
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