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Palais de Justice in her handsome carriage with a blue hammer-cloth and coats-of-arms, her coachman in gold lace, and two footmen in breeches and silk stockings.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

A coachman in a tight silver wig surmounted the magnificent hammer-cloth (whereon the same arms were worked in bullion), and controlled the prancing greys — a young man still, but of a solemn countenance, with a laced waistcoat and buckles in his shoes — little buckles, unlike those which John and Jeames, the footmen, wear, and which we know are large, and spread elegantly over the foot.

The History of Pendennis 2006

The only diversion from this strict rule was an occasional drive in the park with mother, in a dark green chariot with hammer-cloth, and green and gold liveries and powdered wigs for coachman and footman: no one went into the park in those days otherwise.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

Miss Osborne from Russell Square came in her grand chariot with the flaming hammer-cloth emblazoned with the Leeds arms.

Vanity Fair 2006

It is lined with rose-silk; and on its panels, and on its hammer-cloth, my arms are emblazoned -- no one has ever been able to count the quarterings.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

It is lined with rose-silk; and on its panels, and on its hammer-cloth, my arms are emblazoned -- no one has ever been able to count the quarterings.

Zuleika Dobson 1911

The only diversion from this strict rule was an occasional drive in the park with mother, in a dark green chariot with hammer-cloth, and green and gold liveries and powdered wigs for coachman and footman: no one went into the park in those days otherwise.

The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

On each side of the pole, still in its place, lay the skeleton of a horse; from their two grim white heads ascended the shrivelled reins to the hand of the skeleton-coachman seated on his tattered hammer-cloth; both doors had fallen away; within sat two skeletons, each leaning back in its corner.

Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864

The hammer-cloth, rich in heraldic designs, the powdered footmen in smart liveries, and a coachman who assumed all the gaiety and appearance of a wigged archbishop, were indispensable.

Reminiscences of Captain Gronow Gronow, Rees Howell, 1794-1865 1862

We rambled up the long, winding slope of those aristocratic stairs, every step of which, covered with Turkey rugs, looked gorgeous as the hammer-cloth of the Lord Mayor's coach; and Harry hied straight to a rosewood door, which, on magical hinges, sprang softly open to his touch.

Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855