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What are puttees?

What are puttees? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of puttee
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He looked well in Windbreaker coat, cap, leather puttees, and his knickers were genuine Scotch plaid.
Upon his puttees it had dried so thickly that you could scarcely see the folds.
The French soldiers more often than not had no weapons and wore their street clothes with either a wedge cap, or puttees over their trousers.
Such puttees were first worn by members of the Anglo-Indian army in the late 19th century.
The period saw the transition of British Army uniform from red wool serge coats to khaki cotton, and gaiters were replaced by puttees.
Anand's protagonist, Bakha, wants to wear trousers, breeches, coat, puttees and boots.

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