epaulette

• A major gets a little gold-colored oak leaf on the epaulette, one inch across, one on each side. —  The Enemy by Lee Child
• Undercover: the police constable at the Tamil demonstration outside Parliament without the epaulette (ringed) that should display his identity number —  Evening Standard - Home
• We saw the burnished cannon and the bright epaulette, the gleaming button and the glancing bayonet. —  The Rifle Rangers
• But while I looked I saw one by one totter and fall, and directly I perceived that the epaulette or shoulder-strap on the shoulder of each was a great hideous yellow worm, that gnawed away the shoulder and palsied the arm and ate into the vitals_. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
• Spurning buttons, he aspired to the epaulette, and was appointed paymaster to the 7th Hussars. —  Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)

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