shako
noun
a military cap in the form of a cylinder or truncated cone, with a visor and a plume or pompon.
shakoes
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pluralof shako.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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At our head marched our fine grenadiers in their brave red coats, their bearskin shakoes.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
They were entirely stripped, but their shakoes were near them, by the numbers on which I could see that they belonged to one of the regiments in Ney's corps.
From The Red True Story Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
The British force is melting away, when hark! the feeble cheers from the battered race stand are at last answered, as a long line of tall shakoes and red uniforms comes into view in rear.
From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley
"I see the shakoes of soldiers aboard other."
From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Their escort consisted of two or three files of the prison guard, dirty looking soldiers of the infanteria, in coarse linen uniforms, stiff shakoes on their heads, their arm the old-fashioned flint-lock musket.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid
