zouave

A mauve silk dress with eighteen flounces, and about eighteen hundred steel buttons that glittered your sight away; a "zouave" jacket worked with gold; a black turban perched on the top of her skull, garnished in front with what court milliners are pleased to term a "plume de coq," but which, by its size and height, might have been taken for a "coq" himself, while

East Lynne Henry Wood 1850

A mauve silk dress, with eighteen flounces and about eighteen hundred steel buttons that glittered your sight away; a "zouave" jacket worked with gold; a black turban perched on the top of her skull, garnished in front with what court milliners are pleased to term a "plume de coq," but which, by its size and height, might have been taken for a "coq" himself, while a white sotrich feather was carried round and did duty behind, and a spangled hair-net hung down to her waist.

East Lynne, or, The Earl's Daughter 1864

The zouave left him at the Hotel Lutetia with a cheery salute and more incomprehensible attempts at English, then rattled off, his scarlet trousers flapping in the wind.

Archive 2009-12-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

Hailey clung desperately to the zouave piloting the motorbike and tried to ignore the fragments of cold mud whipping his cheek and splatting on his goggles.

Archive 2009-12-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

Traffic grew heavier as they approached Paris, necessitating that the zouave slow down.

Archive 2009-12-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

And from England, he made his way to the Vatican, and he became a papal zouave, part of the papal guards in the Vatican.

Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 2002

December, zouave jacket and bodice; January, princess under-dress

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. Various

As it was not belted down, it crept out and lent a comical suggestion of zouave jacket to the camisa, or waist, of _sinamay_ (a kind of native cloth made of hemp fibres).

A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee

He felt that he could not argue with the pontifical zouave of bygone days.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

The Regent Senaputti was a keen player, and very picturesque in his costume of green velvet zouave jacket, salmon-pink silk dhotee and pink silk turban.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson