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- noun Plural form of
epaulette .
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Examples
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Upon this self-evident principle, our Aesculapius with the epaulettes was the first man drunk in the ship.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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There were also various other rewards of military merit established, such as epaulettes of beaten silver, daggers with silver hilts, and ensigns decorated with fine needle-work.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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Then Windisch's face is small and dejected above the epaulettes.
Herta Müller - Prose 2009
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Turkish officer epaulettes 1912, Balkan war, very rare!
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He felt comfortable among such men, and was too ready to trust those in epaulettes.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Windisch strikes the two small, despondent faces above the epaulettes dead.
Herta Müller - Prose 2009
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In fact there was more hysteria yesterday when a PC (a medic) was spotted not wearing any ID epaulettes.
Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Rich people wave at us, or at least smile if smiled at, from under the canopies of their rain-dappled gin-palaces, their causeways perfectly guarded by muscled men in fake epaulettes.
Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter 2011
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Re collar numbers - is it not that he is a Sgt on a PSU therefore he wears white sliders over his epaulettes?
Diversity In Action (or ‘inaction’ if you prefer) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Pink accents his collar and epaulettes as well as his matching chaussembles and the dagged sleeves of his pourpoint.
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