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Also known as legwrap, puttie, leg binding, winingas, wickelbander

thumb|Close-up of a World War I era United States Army infantryman's puttees thumb|A member of the Women's Land Army wearing a waterproof coat, [[sou'wester and puttees]] A puttee (also spelled puttie, adapted from the Hindi paṭṭī, meaning "bandage") is a covering for the lower part of the leg from the ankle to the knee, also known as: legwraps, leg bindings, winingas and Wickelbänder etc. They consist of a long narrow piece of cloth wound tightly, and spirally round the leg, and serving to provide both support (as a compression garment) and protection. They were worn by both mounted and dismo

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