On their feet they wore sometimes shoes, with puttees twisted round the lower part of the leg, and sometimes half-boots, as shown on the Chieftain Vase and one of the Petsofa figurines.
British puttees and British breeches were cases in point.
The soldier used to be rather careless as to whether his boots were of a proper fit, and he was apt to bind his puttees too tightly.
First came a titter, then a choked laugh, and finally the whole dugout howled with uncontrollable mirth, until the victim wound on his puttees and stalked out, much offended, to get some iodine for his ear.
He pictured himself in the bathroom eagerly peeling off his puttees as the water splashed into the pale blue bath.
Just as he was in the middle of this, with his boots and puttees off, his Captain came in to say that his Platoon was being sent off as infantry escort to a battery of artillery.
Breeches and puttees were not only too hot but they closed in the leg and afforded cover to the lively little fellow who lives indiscriminately on the soldiers of both sides.
Some were able to tuck the bottoms into their boots, while others had to wind puttees above their knees.
Some felt that puttees were a nuisance--everybody realized that the breeches were too long, but differed on the point as to how much too long.
Whereat the frightened youth in black putteessidled over and explained with a pathetic, at once ingratiating and patronising, accent.
My putteesand shoes are prehistoric in appearance.
He had a weak pimply grey face, was clad in a brownish uniform, puttees (on pipestem calves), and a regular Messenger Boy cap.
I tied up my boots--the laces were covered with liquid clay--and put on my puttees which were hard and stiff with caked mud.
Women will generally find woolen Boy Scout stockings best adapted for a trip of this kind; leggings or puttees may be worn over them as desired.
And two things help to make it neat and trim: One is the belt that holds the tunic in, and the other the puttees that fold up the trouser legs.
How the boys used to hate polishing buttons and smoothingputtees and brushing up, but it was all good and necessary.
Each of them had a few rents in their khaki trousers; and might have been served even worse only that their puttees protected the lower part of their limbs.
In spite of his patched khâki and ragged puttees there was something dandified about him.
Breeches and stockings may be worn, but long puttees should be avoided as they constrict the muscles and stop the circulation, thus tending to frost-bite, which is a serious danger at high altitudes.
Your shoes or boots are by your bed, all oiled and cleaned, and your puttees are neatly rolled, ready to be wound around you from the tops of the shoes to the knee.
Professional guides, arrayed in picturesque Buffalo Bill outfits, with spurs and hunting-knives and slouch hats, are among those present, and amateur sportsmen in crisp khaki and sun helmets and new puttees swagger back and forth to the bar.
With them are worn puttees or leather leggings, and low boots.
Leather leggings are noisy, and the rolled puttees hot and binding.
He felt no longer the slight tug of puttees about his ankles.
His fur parka, topping those khaki trousers and putteesof his, would seem at least to tell a tale, and might complicate matters considerably.
Many men standing in slime for days and nights in field boots or puttees lost all sense of feeling in their feet.
The fact was I had shoved it down under my puttees while lying back of the trench the previous afternoon.
But I had already shoved my few trinkets down my puttees while lying back of the trench that afternoon.
Our ankle-puttees had long dropped to pieces, and our hose-tops, having worked under the soles of our boots, had been cut away and discarded.
The result was a bare and mud-splashed expanse of leg from boot to kilt, except in the case of the enterprising few who had devised artistic spat-puttees out of an old sandbag.
We all thought we would be at it again in a few minutes, and the men began tightening up their puttees and looking to their rifles and ammunition.
Three months ago they were hairy men whose beards did grow beneath their shoulders, and their puttees were cemented with wet clay; to-day they are clean-shaven and their Burberrys might be worn in Piccadilly.
She wore gray wool kilts, riding breeches laced in about the knee, suede puttees and tan shoes; and she carried a Russian game pouch beautifully embroidered across her right shoulder.
I'm wondering about those puttees, dear--shanks inputtees are deceptive.
A brown blanket covered all but his puttees and a pair of neat, well-made brown boots.
For the first time I noticed that the Americans were wearing puttees like our men, instead of the canvas gaiters which they sported when first in France.
One aged woman in a short blue skirt wore sabots, and British puttees in place of stockings.
Bertram thankfully took the Embarkation Officer’s advice, and cast off all impedimenta until he was clad only in khaki shirt, shorts, puttees and boots.
On a bench, by the door of the Customs shed, lounged some big negroes in dark blue tunics and shorts, with blue puttees between bare knees and bare feet.
He sank on to the camp-bed, swung up his long legs, with their heavy boots, shorts, and puttees and puffed luxuriously.
It was not until he had retrieved his sodden puttees and commenced to put them on, that he realised that he was still wearing the trousers of his pyjamas!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puttees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
