epaulettes

• “Upon this self-evident principle, our Aesculapius with the epaulettes was the first man drunk in the ship.”

  Rattlin the Reefer

• “There were also various other rewards of military merit established, such as epaulettes of beaten silver, daggers with silver hilts, and ensigns decorated with fine needle-work.”

  Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia

• “Re collar numbers - is it not that he is a Sgt on a PSU therefore he wears white sliders over his epaulettes?”

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• “In fact there was more hysteria yesterday when a PC (a medic) was spotted not wearing any ID epaulettes.”

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• “Turkish officer epaulettes 1912, Balkan war, very rare!”

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• “Rich people wave at us, or at least smile if smiled at, from under the canopies of their rain-dappled gin-palaces, their causeways perfectly guarded by muscled men in fake epaulettes.”

  The Guardian: Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter

• “Pink accents his collar and epaulettes as well as his matching chaussembles and the dagged sleeves of his pourpoint.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Fashion in Art: Medieval France and the Netherlands

• “Windisch strikes the two small, despondent faces above the epaulettes dead.”

  Herta Müller - Prose

• “Then Windisch's face is small and dejected above the epaulettes.”

  Herta Müller - Prose

• “He felt comfortable among such men, and was too ready to trust those in epaulettes.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Return

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