shako

or shack·o

[shak-oh, shey-koh]

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noun, plural shak·os or shack·os, shak·oes or shack·oes.

a military cap in the form of a cylinder or truncated cone, with a visor and a plume or pompon.

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Origin of shako

1805–15; < French schako < Hungarian csákó, short for csákós (süveg) peaked (cap), adj. derivative of csák peak < Middle High German zacke peak, point; see tack¹

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Historical Examples of shako

One of these, in its explosion, knocked off my shako and killed a man beside me.
How The Redoubt Was Taken
Prosper Mrime
As it was the sword pierced through his shako and out poured the gold pieces by thousands on to the highroad.
The Poor Plutocrats
Maurus Jkai
His only answer was to check his charger, take off his shako, and bend his forehead to his saddle-bow.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
Various
You may know one of them by his tall turban, like a shako, though sometimes it is rolled like a conch-shell.
Across India
Oliver Optic
"I congratulate you," said the captain, as I picked up my shako.
How The Redoubt Was Taken
Prosper Mrime

British Dictionary definitions for shako

shako

shacko

noun plural shakos, shakoes, shackos or shackoes

a tall usually cylindrical military headdress, having a plume and often a peak, popular esp in the 19th century

Word Origin for shako

C19: via French from Hungarian csákó, from Middle High German zacke a sharp point

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Word Origin and History for shako

cylindrical soldier's hat with plume, 1815, from Hungarian csákó, short for csákós süveg "peaked cap," from adjectival form of csáko "peak, projecting point of a cow's horn," which some European etymologists derive from German zacken "point, spike," but which Hungarian sources regard as of unknown origin.