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epaulet
[ ep-uh-let, -lit, ep-uh-let ]
noun
- an ornamental shoulder piece worn on uniforms, chiefly by military officers.
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Example Sentences
During missions, they all jumped into the same dark water where, as the early frogmen noted, there was no place on their bare shoulders for rank or epaulets.
M. de Faverges had fallen back on the National Guard, without obtaining the epaulet of commander.
Like the Zouaves, this last-named corps is a favourite with adventurous volunteers, ambitious of distinction and the epaulet.
We also find a tight sleeve gathered in a circular puff at the shoulder or set in a rolled epaulet.
On each side of his neck he has a bare orange-coloured spot, and near it a downy epaulet.
He only had a blue and red epaulet on his white drill tunic, there was no red cross on his arm.
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