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Date: 1800-1900
Language: Hindi
Origin: patti 'long piece of cloth'

puttee

 noun
     
Related topics: Clothes
put‧tee [countable usually plural]
PMADCC a long piece of cloth that soldiers wrapped around each leg from the knee down, as part of their uniform in the past
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