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.
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Puttee
/ˈpʌtiː/
Synonyms for "puttee" (6 found)
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4 entriescotton putteecotton putteesgauze putteewool puttees
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5 entrieskhaki putteesleg wrapsmilitary putteeswool putteesworld war i puttees
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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).
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