shoulder-knot

Amelia came down with her kind smiling looks (Rebecca must introduce her to her friend, Miss Crawley was longing to see her, and was too ill to leave her carriage) — when, I say, Amelia came down, the Park Lane shoulder-knot aristocracy wondered more and more that such a thing could come out of Bloomsbury; and Miss

Vanity Fair 2006

“My faithful Duke!” said the Prince, pulling him by the shoulder-knot, “thou art always at THY POST.”

The History of the Next French Revolution 2006

Our artist loves to joke at a soldier; in whose livery there appears to him to be something almost as ridiculous as in the uniform of the gentleman of the shoulder-knot.

George Cruikshank 2006

“My faithful Duke!” said the Prince, pulling him by the shoulder-knot, “thou art always at THY POST.”

Burlesques 2006

Overdo; but I will let him see, before we part, that my shoulder-knot is as legal a badge of authority as the mace of the Justiciary.

Old Mortality 2004

Kedarnath and Badrinath were not impressed; and it was only after days of travel that Kim, uplifted upon some insignificant ten-thousand-foot hummock, could see that a shoulder-knot or horn of the two great lords had — ever so slightly — changed outline.

Kim 2003

Maclachlan darted out and dropped on his knee before Charles, who, with kindly impatience, seized the shoulder-knot of his plaid, haled him to his feet, and plied him with a throng of questions.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

Hence there is throughout too exact an estimate of everything by what it is worth in sterling cash, with a contempt for small things, which has an unpleasant odour of plush and shoulder-knot about it.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

The commentator Nilakantha supposes that it may stand for the shoulder-knot.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

For his introduction into genteel society he is indebted to _Robert_, whom he has mistaken for a Baronet, and who presents him to several of his fellow-knights of the shoulder-knot, all dubbed, for the occasion, lords and ladies, exactly as it happens in the farce of

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various