shako

or shack·o

[ shak-oh, shey-koh ]

/ ˈʃæk oʊ, ˈʃeɪ koʊ /

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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.

RELATED WORDS

armor, hat, busby, kepi

Nearby words

shakespearean sonnet, shakespeareana, shakhty, shaking, shaking palsy, shako, shaks., shakshuka, shakspere, shakta, shakti

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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Examples from the Web for 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

/ (ˈʃækəʊ) /

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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