epaulette

How To Use epaulette 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
• 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.