shako
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On Friday afternoon, Ms. Zorn, in a dress uniform and a black shako, officially took over the post during the Citadel’s pomp-laden graduation parade, known as the Long Gray Line.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2018
In black-and-white school photos from the early ’60s, Trump can be seen in boots, sash and a plumed shako, like some Austro-Hungarian infantryman.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2018
The troops, resplendent in dashing new blue-and-white uniforms, with peaked shako helmets and red cockades and armed with sabres, were made up of local Tory businessmen, shopkeepers, lawyers and their sons.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2018
To the top of the shako, a guard stands 7-feet tall, and the game-day inspection of the Guard usually draws a crowd - though not for the same reasons the Crimsonettes do.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2013
Oh, with what joy did he put his "fixings" into his shako and take leave of his corporal!
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
At our head marched our fine grenadiers in their brave red coats, their bearskin shakoes.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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They had put their shakoes aside and wrapped rags around their heads to keep the sweat out of their eyes.
From Shaman by Robert Shea
The troopers were in campaign order, with rifled carbines slung over their backs, pugarees hanging from their shakoes over their necks, and were dust-covered and sunburnt, but soldierly.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
"I see the shakoes of soldiers aboard other."
From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
But those soldiers, with their huge shakoes, their hairy knapsacks, and their hearts of steel—what men they were!
From Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A cheap tinsel sign hanging behind the men, who’ve been absurdly costumed in bow ties and plumed shakos, makes it clear we’re watching an amateur talent show.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2020
Four soldiers in flamboyant uniforms - black shakos, red feathers, gold brocade - guard the shaman responsible.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2016
Band Hall of Nashville outfits the musicians and flag bearers in woven polyester jackets and pants, as well as coordinating shoes, gloves, and plumed hats called shakos.
From Inc ● Nov. 5, 2012
And there were old inaugural standbys: the brother rats from V.M.I., the plumed Richmond Blues, the paunchy Governor's Foot Guards of Connecticut in scarlet coats and shakos.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His army consisted of splendid picked warriors on horseback, hussars in gold-braided dolmans, wolf-skin pelisses, and shakos with falcon feathers.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai