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glengarry

[ glen-gar-ee ]

noun

, plural glen·gar·ries.
  1. a Scottish cap with straight sides, a crease along the top, and sometimes short ribbon streamers at the back, worn by Highlanders as part of military dress.


glengarry

/ ɡlɛnˈɡærɪ /

noun

  1. a brimless Scottish woollen cap with a crease down the crown, often with ribbons dangling at the back Also calledglengarry bonnet
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of glengarry1

First recorded in 1835–45; after Glengarry, a valley in Invernesshire, Scotland
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Word History and Origins

Origin of glengarry1

C19: after Glengarry, Scotland
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Example Sentences

The man who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross actually and unironically references "the current economic jollity."

The author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow is, to many minds, the best living American playwright.

It might be a portrait of Hendry or Sander bonneted in his glengarry, armed with a target, and trekking off with two terriers.

I can see him now as he waved me a good-bye from the platform in his Glengarry cap and short tunic and plaid trousers.

The first attacks of the Glengarry Highlanders and the regular troops were repulsed with great loss of life.

On the north side the mountains of Glengarry shot up in a succession of high and bold peaks.

So he lifted his smart Glengarry cap, and in sad perplexity strode away.

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