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  • In the 1750s, the private soldier was issued a long collarless single-breasted coat or justaucorps of greyish white, with lining and deep cuffs of blue.

    Archive 2008-06-22 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • In the 1750s, the private soldier was issued a long collarless single-breasted coat or justaucorps of greyish white, with lining and deep cuffs of blue.

    la charge de la compagnie Franche de la Marine du musée Stewart au fort de l'île Ste-Hélène de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • After this exclamation, the officer arose and marched, with his hands in the pockets of his _justaucorps_, about the immense ante-chamber that served him as an apartment.

    The Vicomte De Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • Raoul had thrust his hand up to the wrist into his _justaucorps_ in great agitation.

    Ten Years Later Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • _justaucorps_, which, from its sumptuousness, was scarcely in harmony with the work he was employed in, that rather necessitated the costume of a master-mason than of a noble.

    The Vicomte De Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • _justaucorps_ of coarse wool, a cap pulled down over his eyes, a cutlass hung from his belt, and he walked with the hesitation peculiar to sailors, who, never knowing, thanks to the movement of the vessel, whether their foot will be placed upon the plank or upon nothing, give to every one of their steps a fall as firm as if they were driving a pile.

    The Vicomte De Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • _ It collects all ramblers and gamblers; all the market-men and market-women who deal in articles which God has thrown into their baskets, without any trouble on their part; all the seducers and all who wish to be seduced; all the duellists who erase their crimes with their swords, and sweat out their cowardice with daily practice; all the nobles whose patents of nobility lie in gold snuff-boxes, or have worn Mechlin ruffles, or are deposited within the archives of knee-deep waistcoats; all stock-jobbers and church-jobbers, the black-legged and the red-legged game, the flower of the _justaucorps_, the _robe_, and the _soutane_.

    Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819

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