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shako

NOUN
  1. tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions

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  • The AB figures are sculpted in the early pattern shako, so must be meant to represent the scheutzen from a light infantry unit, so I will paint them as their parent unit. The Stewarts & Camerons Have Arrived!
  • So borrowing from a suggestion from one of the lads on The Miniatures Page (TMP), I am thinking that the grenadiers in the musketeer regiments (are you following this so far?) will wear the shako and busch plume and have a troop quality that is no better than a musketeer. Archive 2008-06-01
  • Because of the prestige of the light horse, items of hussar dress were adopted in emulation by other armies - the infantry shako, standard military headgear of all nations in the nineteenth century, being the prime example.
  • But my tinfoil shako makes me look like such a playa! Doubleplus ungood | My[confined]Space
  • Jägers wore grey-green rather than field-grey uniforms, and a flat-topped shako rather than a spiked helmet.
  • I plan to use my SYW Black Hussars in the Napoleonic game since some of the Prussian hussars still wore the mirliton in 1806 although the Black Hussars were switching over to the shako. Archive 2009-06-01
  • The sun, brilliant after the early fog, glinted on gold braid and polished shakos.
  • Then, shako-less and still buttoning his bluejacket, the Sergeant turned back towards the approaching Riflemen. Sharpe's Rifles
  • And do you know that these enemies wear shakos, and are called gens d'armes? Stories by American Authors, Volume 6
  • Most of the compositions are settings of Biblical or liturgical texts in Slavonic, which is the language of Pleshakov's youth. Timesunion.com: Local Breaking News
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