Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A head-dress worn by soldiers, especially infantry, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is inform a cylinder or truncated cone, stiff, with a vizor in front, and generally has a plume or pompon.
Wiktionary
- n. A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume.
- n. UK A bearskin or busby.
- n. The squilla or mantis shrimp.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of military cap or headdress.
WordNet 3.0
- n. tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions
Etymologies
- From Hungarian csákó a cylindrical military dress hat worn by the Hungarian hussars (from the 18th century to the 1st World War). (Wiktionary)
- French schako, from Hungarian csákó, from csákós (süveg), pointed (cap), from csák, peak, perhaps from Middle High German zacke, tack, nail. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But my tinfoil shako makes me look like such a playa!”
“Tell me do, who's the guy in the green coat off to one side in the shako?”
“I plan to use my SYW Black Hussars in the Napoleonic game since some of the Prussian hussars still wore the mirliton in 1806 although the Black Hussars were switching over to the shako.”
“Vielles – Haudriettes, found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun.”
“Then I dabbled with them a bit, painting one elite company trooper in colpack and one regular company trooper in shako.”
“The AB figures are sculpted in the early pattern shako, so must be meant to represent the scheutzen from a light infantry unit, so I will paint them as their parent unit.”
“So borrowing from a suggestion from one of the lads on The Miniatures Page (TMP), I am thinking that the grenadiers in the musketeer regiments (are you following this so far?) will wear the shako and busch plume and have a troop quality that is no better than a musketeer.”
“Alsop also designed the limited edition range of 1805 (bicorn) and 1809 (shako) French infantry, a limited range of 1805 Austrian infantry, and his rather extensive American Civil War range (which is one of my favorite ranges of all time for any historical period - exquisite sculpts they were).”
“He watched the rising and falling tide near his home, so he could run along an exposed sandbar to catch clams and shako fish.”
“Kuzma Vassilyevitch stepped aside; his feeling of compassion overpowered his fear of doing something foolish and, when she caught him up, he politely touched the peak of his shako, and asked her the cause of her tears.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shako’.
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hatly matters
manners of hat - some vague, many trite, some not
drop of a hat, talk through (one..., take off (ones) hat, throw in hat, under (ones) hat, hat in hand, hats off, chit-chat, crosshatch, all hat and no ca..., cat in the hat co..., pass the hat around and 52 more...
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names of hats
liripipe, cowl, capuchon, liripipium, snood, bonnet, toque, turban, poke, toboggan-cap, crown, fedora and 72 more...
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hats and headgear
Everything hats,things with hoods,hoods,scarves,crowns,useful
adjectival forms,hat expressions,
alternate spellingsbabushka, balaclava, bamoral, baseball cap, beanie, bearskin, beaver hat, beret, billycock, biretta, boater, bobble hat and 422 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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Hats Off!
trilby, porkpie, panama, fedora, pillbox, stovepipe, turban, boater, ball cap, pastorella, beret, bowler and 219 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1387 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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Field Mass
for the same
fanon, armet, wether, filibuster, shadoof, shabrack, mai, sainfoin, sand-crack, panoply, guerdon, flunky and 234 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Art and Artistry
More or less.
kitsch, sprezzatura, pastiche, willowy, haque, aplomb, insouciant, weft, froufrou, frippery, festoon, moustachioed and 8 more...
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Cormac McCarthy--Blood Meridian
gibbous, spanceled, legatee, vadose, debouch, toper, elision, crenellated, rowel, rebus, supernumerary, shako and 12 more...
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head wear
head-where: head-ware: head (at)tire
sallet, kangol, halo, peruke, cockade, tam, beret, helmet, hood, circlet, phylactery, chignon and 51 more...
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words i learned from diablo ii
el oh el
eldritch, cuirass, hauberk, stygian, bovine, scimitar, succubus, scarab, wraith, shako, fulminate, armet and 1 more...
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knitandpurl "The child was enrolled in the military academy. He received a little sword, long trousers, and a shako."
Embers by Sándor Márai, translated by Carol Brown Janeway, p 32 of the Vintage International paperback Mar 14, 2011