chapeau-bras

• Never heard it in English, but one of my dictionaries has chapeau-bras. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• When Pere Lenegre opened the narrow door, the entire framework of it was filled by the broad, magnificent figure of a man in heavy caped coat and high leather boots, with dainty frills of lace at throat and wrist, and elegant chapeau-bras held in the hand. —  The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
• The long, many-pillared room, with its mirrors and chandeliers, was crowded with full - blooded, loud-voiced men-about-town, all in the same dark evening dress with white silk stockings, cambric shirt-fronts, and little, flat chapeau-bras under their arms. —  Rodney Stone
• My once dear lord, my kind friend, when your two years 'reign was over, did not you jump for joy and fling your chapeau-bras out of window: and hasn't that hat cost you a pretty bit of money? —  Roundabout Papers
• Church in a suit of white and silver, with a chapeau-bras, and his hair marvellously dressed into a sort of double toupee, which divided upon his head like the two tops of Parnassus. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)

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