kepi

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The family relinquished some of the artifacts—the kepi, belt, sword, corps badge he wore on July 1, 1863–to the National Park Service.

From Time • Jun. 30, 2015

In a full-page illustration by Winslow Homer, published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly in 1861, Wallace sits astride his horse in a pair of billowing trousers, an exotic-looking kepi perched on his head.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2013

As the general deplaned in khakis and kepi, the band struck up La Marseillaise and a battery of antiaircraft cannon boomed 21 times�so loud and near that bystanders felt the breath of the guns.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wearing his brigadier general's uniform and two-star kepi, De Gaulle addressed a curiously subdued crowd of 200,000 from the balcony of the National Palace�the first visiting dignitary ever accorded that honor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The latter now wore a very tight white uniform, and a rather high and cumbrous kepi lay on the chair at his side.

From Long Odds by Bindloss, Harold