bandoleer

NOUN
  1. a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers
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  • Now then, what aggravates me is, that these troglodytes and muscovites and bandoleers and buccaneers are also trying to crowd in and share the benefit of the law, and compel everybody to revere their Shakespeare and hold him sacred. Is Shakespeare Dead?
  • Standish can there walk up and down before his pipe-clayed bandoleers in foreign colonies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859
  • I prefer Red Green's seatbelt approach, wherein the shoulder belt looks like an ammunition bandoleer and is therefore awesome to wear (Episode #1216, "Rain Man"). Inflatable Seat Belt » E-Mail
  • The only advantage Gadhafi has is the air force, said Saleh Mostafa, 19, wearing green fatigues, black sneakers and a bandoleer of machine-gun ammunition across his chest. Libyan rebels hold positions in face of airstrikes
  • McVeigh's narrow chest was crisscrossed with bandoleers filled with ammo; he carried a rifle with a scope, a sawed-off shotgun and two pistols. The Plot
  • I could see two of the enemy carrying several extra M-16 rifles and a bunch of bandoleers of ammunition. Michael Craig Campbell
  • Almond plans to have his pistol loaded and openly carried, his rifle unloaded and slung to the rear, a bandoleer of magazines containing ammunition draped over his polo-shirted shoulder. Militia movement will be packing heat at rally on the Potomac
  • Pleasantly weary, he stretched out on a rope bed, eavesdropping on his father's guests and supplicants -- smoky, piratical gatherings in the hujera's great room, with hubble-bubble hookahs and high-caliber bandoleers, lulling him to sleep with the streamside murmur of their mutter and growl, and the whine and hum of their radio, beaming news from the great beyond. Excerpt: The Warlord's Son by Dan Fesperman
  • Now then, what aggravates me is, that these troglodytes and muscovites and bandoleers and buccaneers are _also_ trying to crowd in and share the benefit of the law, and compel everybody to revere their Shakespeare and hold him sacred. Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography
  • One bandaleere [a bandoleer was a belt worn to carry the cases which held the powder charges]. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
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