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Last week, in splendid array, the seven companies of cadets swept onto the V.M.I, parade ground in full regalia: black-plumed shakos, gray coatees, white crossbelts, white ducks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cadet James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose military career ended when he was under the delusion that silicon was a gas, designed the buttons that still grace the coatees of West Point Cadets.
From Time Magazine Archive
They wore coatees, and white belts, and little white pompons tipped with red; pompons stand the wind and weather much better than tall feathers.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
Left of them was the infantry, two hundred sepoys in shakoes, red coatees, white trousers, and bare feet, leaning on long percussion-capped muskets with triangular bayonets.
From The Elephant God by Casserly, Gordon
The chalky white powder clung to their blue trousers and scarlet coatees; their shakoes, too, were whitened, and their hot faces were grimed and coated with perspiration and dust.
From The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne by Smith, A. Monro
