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bicorne

NOUN
  1. a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points

How To Use bicorne In A Sentence

  • In the mirror she was wearing a muddy bicorne hat. The French Revolution
  • Dodd and Pendleton were the piquets on the Quinta's driveway and when they saluted him Christopher just touched the ivory heel of his riding crop to one of the tasselled peaks of his bicorne hat. Sharpe's Havoc
  • In honor of the emperor, he makes a chocolate in the shape of his bicorne hat, filled with marzipan, cherry liquor and bitter banana cream. Turning Chocolate on Its Head
  • A small pair of gold-rimmed half-spectacles, a neat hair-ribbon and a bicorne of blue felt completed the picture. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • A Lieutenant Colonel in a black bicorne hat walked up the beach. Sharpe's Prey
  • I agree, the officer in the bicorne looks a real Tartar! Baden Jagers 1806
  • It was not an engineering school, but a military school–rigid rules, tight-fitting blue uniforms, swords, the traditional bicorne for parade-ground ceremonies–and devoted to the study of pure science. The Path Between the Seas
  • Bonaparte's older brother Giuseppe tipped his bicorne hat and bowed from the waist. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
  • Does he temporarily conceal his – undoubtedly genetically acquired – bicorne nature with a rainbow mitre? Michael Ingham is elegantly angry « Anglican Samizdat
  • Triumphant in roman toga or plain and corporal-like in long coat and bicorne hat, there are statues of the great Corsican everywhere, streets and squares named after him, prints and portraits of him in every bar and café.
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