different between puggry vs puggree

English

From Hindi.

puggry (plural puggries)

A strip of cloth wound around the upper portion of a hat or helmet, particularly a pith helmet, and falling down behind to act as a shade for the back of the neck.

From Hindi.

puggree (plural puggrees)

A strip of cloth wound around the upper portion of a hat or helmet, particularly a pith helmet, and falling down behind to act as a shade for the back of the neck.
- 1867, J. T. Newell, Hog Hunting in the East: And Other Sports
  The head was supported by a neck, long, pinched, and weazeny, and was surmounted by a somewhat worn and ragged puggree, from the sides of which a few straggling grey hairs escaped
- 1888: I recognised the eldest Miss Copleigh, because she had a puggree round her helmet, and the younger had not. — Rudyard Kipling, ‘False Dawn’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 36)
  Hand-wrapped puggaree hat-band. Ideal for gardening, hiking or exploring forgotten tombs. -- commercial site with illustration

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