How To Use Epaulet In A Sentence

  • Underneath them, spread over the square back of the chair, a dark-blue, single-breasted frock-coat, hanging nearly to the floor, its shoulders decked with huge epaulettes, to the right one of which were attached the braid and loops of a heavy gilt aiguillette whose glistening pendants were hung temporarily on the upper button. Waring's Peril
  • The cuffs were also of the same nature, as were the epaulettes on the shoulders of his military tunic.
  • Coats, jackets, and other garments became increasingly embellished during the 18th century as epaulettes, loops, lace, and aiguillettes all appeared.
  • The gem-studded epaulettes are fringed with seed pearls.
  • On the shoulder of one he saw the glint of a gilded epaulet: a senior member of the Gale Force. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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  • I purchased a navy surplus coat, and it came with epaulets.
  • They would show Russian army paybooks, an officer's gaudy epaulette, boxes of almost unstrikable Estonian matches, buttons, cap-badges. KARA KUSH
  • But now it turns out that on the other epaulet was perched the principled figure of Taylor Branch, not at all claiming to be a harp-strummer himself but insistently reminding his old friend that there were better angels in politics and humanity whose claims should not be scorned. What Was Bill Thinking?
  • The epaulettes on the choker tunic of his black naval uniform bore the four stripes of his rank.
  • He was rushed to hospital where doctors found that the epaulette on his shirt had saved him from the worst of the wound.
  • The epaulettes on the choker tunic of his black naval uniform bore the four stripes of his rank.
  • I just wish the pilot wasn't wearing shiny black shoes, pressed black trousers, and a white, starched shirt with epaulettes that vaguely suggest a naval uniform.
  • They all look slightly ridiculous in their epaulets and tin pot hats and braided swallowtail coats.
  • About the shoulders he also wore a garment called the ephod; this was made of costly material, and consisted of two portions about an ell long, which covered the back and breast, were held together above by two shoulderbands or epaulets, and terminated below with a magnificent girdle. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • No longer will you have to squint in the field trying to see if you are talking to a lieutenant-colonel or a mature-aged private because their webbing is covering the epaulettes.
  • Wearing his military uniform, decorated with medals and gold epaulets, he looked fit, impressive, and self-assured.
  • Military officials, meanwhile, looked as if they were heading for a parade, strutting around in uniform with gold epaulettes and medals on display.
  • There is unit number on the epaulet but I can't make it out. Thursday Night Art Class
  • They can create unchallengeable hierarchies of bejewelled or epauletted shysters, but then so can other human organisations. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wearing his military uniform, decorated with medals and gold epaulets, he looked fit, impressive, and self-assured.
  • I just wish the pilot wasn't wearing shiny black shoes, pressed black trousers, and a white, starched shirt with epaulettes that vaguely suggest a naval uniform.
  • The two dwarves were dressed in plain brown shirts and trousers of the same design, and they had gold epaulettes on their shoulders.
  • The epaulettes on the choker tunic of his black naval uniform bore the four stripes of his rank.
  • The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers.
  • Lauren has regularly used band collars, epaulets, braid, pea coats, aviators' jumpsuits, and military tailoring as signs of crisp, effective women's attire.
  • Its length was shortened, then its skirts were fastened back, then it became cutaway at the front; it grew a collar and sprouted epaulettes.
  • Coats, jackets, and other garments became increasingly embellished during the 18th century as epaulettes, loops, lace, and aiguillettes all appeared.
  • The traditional blue trousers with blue or white shirts with epaulettes and ties made paramedics look more like police and were becoming impractical.
  • After rising through the flying ranks to captain, he switched his epaulettes for a business suit to move into a corporate job with the airline.
  • Their formidable presence, clad in gray uniforms with epaulettes and badges, and the silence pervading their stares, shattered a comfort barrier that held my mind in check and kept others from noticing a sign of personal distress.
  • They wore yellow embellishments, and both they and the grenadiers had fringes to their epaulettes.
  • The flashing gold epaulettes and gold lace on his 18th century naval uniform have been made by Wyedean Weaving.
  • So I figged up, and when I regarded myself in Skene's cracked mirror — blue tunic and breeches, gold belt and epaulettes, white gauntlets and helmet, well-bristled whiskers, and Flashy's stalwart fourteen stone inside it all, it wasn't half bad. Flashman In The Great Game
  • I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. Chatting With Thoreau About Twitter
  • Just over a year ago, a new uniform was adopted, replacing the former uniform with its epaulette and caps, which reflected the military origins of most of the judiciary.
  • I purchased a navy surplus coat, and it came with epaulets.
  • He commands the stage like a modern-day crooner, except that he fronts a rock band instead of an orchestra, and wears "guyliner" and feather epaulettes on his blazer.
  • We met on his enormous yacht, and he wore a captain's cap and an open shirt with epaulets.
  • Or he would take apart a necklace and use it as an epaulet on the shoulder of a jacket so that the coat would be ‘covered with trinkets and madness.’
  • I lack the patience to carefully examine a fan coral for pygmy seahorses no bigger than my little fingernail, but there's enough of the big and dramatic to keep me astonished: the orb-like shimmering jellyfish, the wrasses, turtles and mantas, the epaulette sharks that "walk" on their fins, the unworldly-appearing frogfish or the schools of silver barracuda. Dive Time
  • Or he would take apart a necklace and use it as an epaulet on the shoulder of a jacket so that the coat would be ‘covered with trinkets and madness.’
  • The tattoo was remarkable as amongst the tribes of the lower Zambeze. 57 There were waistcoats, epaulettes, braces and cross-belts of huge welts, and raised polished lumps which must have cost not a little suffering; the skin is pinched up between the fingers and sawn across with a bluntish knife, the deeper the better; various plants are used as styptics, and the proper size of the cicatrice is maintained by constant pressure, which makes the flesh protrude from the wound. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • At every appearance, her new baby was hanging on her shoulder like it was an epaulet. Robert J. Elisberg: Sarah and Bristol Palin: One Child Left Behind
  • The traditional blue trousers with blue or white shirts with epaulettes and ties made paramedics look more like police and were becoming impractical.
  • Pink accents his collar and epaulettes as well as his matching chaussembles and the dagged sleeves of his pourpoint. Fashion in Art: Medieval France and the Netherlands
  • He was wearing a white military suit with a blue silken cape and a pair of epaulets on his shoulders.
  • Have you considered shoulder pads and epaulettes?
  • He wore the ceremonial lavender Administrator robe with a gold collar and epaulets.
  • The two dwarves were dressed in plain brown shirts and trousers of the same design, and they had gold epaulettes on their shoulders.
  • Military officials, meanwhile, looked as if they were heading for a parade, strutting around in uniform with gold epaulettes and medals on display.
  • Just over a year ago, a new uniform was adopted, replacing the former uniform with its epaulette and caps, which reflected the military origins of most of the judiciary.
  • Have you considered shoulder pads and epaulettes?
  • However there were no epaulettes, and no uniform trousers.
  • They are made from a soft, washed poly cotton material and include two front pockets, epaulets, for that military look, and an inside sleeve strap so you can roll your sleeves up and button them into place.
  • She straightened one of the epaulettes on his shoulders that bore the four gold stripes of his rank.
  • After a moment, Henry tapped the man on his epaulet-clad shoulder and relieved him of his beautiful burden.
  • In fact, I'd spent the afternoon being moaned at by a fat man in epaulettes because my portrait of his wife was far too realistic as regarded her unfortunately equine features.
  • An order of 1764 discontinued the wearing of the aiguillette and replaced it with an epaulette worn on the left shoulder.
  • She straightened one of the epaulettes on his shoulders that bore the four gold stripes of his rank.
  • She wears a jacket with epaulettes and metal buttons.
  • The cuffs were also of the same nature, as were the epaulettes on the shoulders of his military tunic.
  • You can go with a standard, french or covered placket and contrast with some color or add in some shoulder elements (military/epaulet, double strip, fabric contrast) and play with some pocket options (single notch, double flap, fabric contrast). Wednesday Giveaway – Blank Label Custom Dress Shirt | Manolith
  • Pink accents his collar and epaulettes as well as his matching chaussembles and the dagged sleeves of his pourpoint. Fashion in Art: Medieval France and the Netherlands
  • It was rather an elaborate military uniform, with golden tassels on the edge of its golden epaulettes and gold trim on the cuffs and collar.
  • Their formidable presence, clad in gray uniforms with epaulettes and badges, and the silence pervading their stares, shattered a comfort barrier that held my mind in check and kept others from noticing a sign of personal distress.
  • However there were no epaulettes, and no uniform trousers.
  • So I figged up, and when I regarded myself in Skene's cracked mirror - blue tunic and breeches, gold belt and epaulettes, white gauntlets and helmet, well-bristled whiskers, and Flashy's stalwart fourteen stone inside it all, it wasn't half bad. Fiancée
  • After rising through the flying ranks to captain, he switched his epaulettes for a business suit to move into a corporate job with the airline.
  • He was wearing an oversized leather jacket with enormous epaulets and was buying some Gouda.
  • Features epaulettes, an inside pocket, two side pockets and a pencil holder on the left sleeve.
  • The epaulettes on the choker tunic of his black naval uniform bore the four stripes of his rank.
  • Fresh from wardrobe, Ralph ridiculously sports a blue and gold epaulet costume and long leather whip. Archive 2006-05-01
  • He was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer no longer possessed a helmet.
  • Doubtless he will be stripped of this title ere long, like Captain Dreyfus having his sword ceremonially broken and the epaulettes torn from his shoulders. Irish Blogs
  • The epaulette shark's slender body is slightly flattened with a rounded snout, two short nasal barbels, and large spiracles.
  • He wore a green uniform with two brass bars on each shoulder and a red beret tucked under one epaulet.
  • I just wish the pilot wasn't wearing shiny black shoes, pressed black trousers, and a white, starched shirt with epaulettes that vaguely suggest a naval uniform.
  • The brilliant epaulettes of the male red-winged blackbird may be a help in attracting a large number of females to his territory.
  • He is more reckless when younger; when his ear is clipped by a sniper's bullet, his concern is that he doesn't bleed on his single epaulette, and later he is deafened when with his men he uses too much powder sabotaging the enemy.
  • Look out for shirts with pockets, epaulettes - and especially shirt dresses, which will be making a strong statement this spring.
  • His shoulders bear epaulets of dark feathers, called the ruff, and his fan-like tail is banded and cross-barred. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls
  • The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers.
  • 'Tis an odd-looking affair; the collar of it repulses his "ossifer hat" from the top of his "hade;" the tail, long and forked, striking his hams at every step, and two great rusty epaulets on his shoulders -- enough to weigh down a man of less patriotic spirit, and on a less patriotic occasion. Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
  • Coats, jackets, and other garments became increasingly embellished during the 18th century as epaulettes, loops, lace, and aiguillettes all appeared.
  • He wore the ceremonial lavender Administrator robe with a gold collar and epaulets.
  • He was rushed to hospital where doctors found that the epaulette on his shirt had saved him from the worst of the wound.
  • Look out for shirts with pockets, epaulettes - and especially shirt dresses, which will be making a strong statement this spring.
  • Features epaulettes, an inside pocket, two side pockets and a pencil holder on the left sleeve.
  • Nice to see that the ‘binman chic’ so beloved by our senior managers has now extended to the issue of Hi-viz epaulettes. on August 9, 2008 at 1: 11 pm | Reply JuliaM Kingsnorth « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • The buff linings of the turned-back cuffs extended a good six inches up the sleeve, and a small coil of gold braid gleamed from one epaulet. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • She wears a jacket with epaulettes and metal buttons.
  • Others have simply "disappeared," as if the U.S. government were some Latin American junta whose generals wear gold-braided epaulets as big as vultures. 05/03/2005
  • The cuffs were also of the same nature, as were the epaulettes on the shoulders of his military tunic.
  • She straightened one of the epaulettes on his shoulders that bore the four gold stripes of his rank.

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