sabretaches

In the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots.

War and Peace 2003

With plumes and braid and lace and pelisses and sabretaches and glitter.

Sharpe's Skirmish Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2002

With plumes and braid and lace and pelisses and sabretaches and glitter.

Sharpe's Skirmish Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2002

When the final chant crashed to a close and Master Gurloes and Master Palaemon in their gold-traced masks had slow-stepped through the door, and the old journeymen had hoisted Drotte and Roche, the new journeymen, on their shoulders (already fumbling in the sabretaches at their belts for the fireworks they would set off outside), I had steeled myself and even formed a rudimentary plan.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

The dwelling abounded in lobbies and corridors, in queer corners where the gloom lurked, and in doors that gave glimpses of sombre bedsteads and high-backed austere chairs, of china painted with the most wonderful designs (loot of the old Indian palaces), of swords and sabretaches hung on walls, and tables polished to such degree that they reflected their surroundings.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

Ever since the accession of Prince Albert to the Royal Husbandship of these realms, he has devoted the energies of his mind and the ingenuity of his hands to the manufacture of infantry caps, cavalry trousers, and regulation sabretaches.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

Immediately, with rattle of sabres and sabretaches, the officers who had composed the board fell into groups and broke into conversation out of a spirit of consideration for Tremayne, and definitely to mark the conclusion of the proceedings.

The Snare Rafael Sabatini 1912

Major Tweedy, moustached like Turko the terrible, in bearskin cap with hackleplume and accoutrements, with epaulettes, gilt chevrons and sabretaches, his breast bright with medals, toes the line.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

In the valley below the infantry has started to run up the slope of La Belle Alliance: after it the cavalry with reins hanging loose, stirrups lost, casques, sabretaches, muskets -- anything that impedes -- thrown into the fields to right and left.

The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

In the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots.

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869