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/ˈpʌtiː/ · noun
A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc..
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.
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.
[…] 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).
Use puttee when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Puttee means A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc..
Common synonyms include puttees.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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