he bought himself a pair of Fox's puttees for going out and polished his belt until it shone like mahogany, and I bet he was never pulled up for having dirty buttons.
Source: wiktionary
Puttee
//ˈpʌtiː//
Synonyms for "puttee" (1 found)
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Closest matches (1)
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Translations
15 translations across 12 languages.
Azerbaijani
2 entries- dolaq noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
- patava noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
Bengali
1 entries- পটি noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
Bulgarian
2 entries- навой noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
- партенка noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
Burmese
1 entries- ပတ်တီး noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
French
1 entries- bande molletière noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
Hindi
1 entries- पट्टी noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- طولاق noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
Persian
1 entries- پتک noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
Polish
1 entries- owijacz noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
Sanskrit
2 entries- पट्टिका noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
- पट्टी noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
Urdu
1 entries- پٹی noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
Vietnamese
1 entries- xà cạp noun (strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
From Hui-li-chou northwards I was escorted by real soldiers, quite of the new service. They looked rather shipshape in khaki suits and puttees, and their guns were of a good model, but they handled them in careless fashion at first, belabouring laden ponies and even coolies who were slow in getting out of the way of my chair.
Source: wiktionary
[…] for example, Gleitman (1990:30), in support of her claim for universal alignments of syntax and semantics, argues for the universal naturalness of three arguments for 'put' verbs (a putter, a puttee, and a location).
Source: wiktionary
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