shappo

And now I examines the bulkhead carefully, and I goes up on deck and resumes my full admiral's coat and buckles on the fine gold-mounted belt and sword and sets my shappo just a little to one side.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

And I hadn't been an hour in mine -- solid gold almost, and a gold-mounted shappo and a gold belt and a dazzlin 'sword -- before I begins to appreciate what it was to be an admiral and to respect every admiral ever I'd sailed under -- except maybe two or three -- for bein' good enough to look at me at all while they were standing round deck in their uniforms.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

I kept wearin 'the gold-mounted shappo because the sun was hot, but the rest of me was stripped to the waist.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

But after I got so I could take off my shappo and draw my sword and look down at myself without swellin 'up, I says to the gen'ral, "What d'y'say, señor gen'ral, to a little action?" and points to a lad quarterin' down the wind toward us with a Red flag up.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

"Ah! the shappo," continued the Captain, "and so down by the glacier dez boys --"

Rivers of Ice 1859