shako

On Friday afternoon, Ms. Zorn, in a dress uniform and a black shako, officially took over the post during the Citadel’s pomp-laden graduation parade, known as the Long Gray Line.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2018

In black-and-white school photos from the early ’60s, Trump can be seen in boots, sash and a plumed shako, like some Austro-Hungarian infantryman.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2018

The troops, resplendent in dashing new blue-and-white uniforms, with peaked shako helmets and red cockades and armed with sabres, were made up of local Tory businessmen, shopkeepers, lawyers and their sons.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2018

To the top of the shako, a guard stands 7-feet tall, and the game-day inspection of the Guard usually draws a crowd - though not for the same reasons the Crimsonettes do.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2013

The young man let fall his shako from his hand, and laid it on his sword-hilt.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Charles James Lever

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

The chalky white powder clung to their blue trousers and scarlet coatees; their shakoes, too, were whitened, and their hot faces were grimed and coated with perspiration and dust.

From The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne by A. Monro Smith

Left of them was the infantry, two hundred sepoys in shakoes, red coatees, white trousers, and bare feet, leaning on long percussion-capped muskets with triangular bayonets.

From The Elephant God by Gordon Casserly

The company officers carried alpenstocks, and their orderlies had officers' cast foraging-caps on top of their glazed shakoes.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea

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

A cheap tinsel sign hanging behind the men, who’ve been absurdly costumed in bow ties and plumed shakos, makes it clear we’re watching an amateur talent show.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2020

Four soldiers in flamboyant uniforms - black shakos, red feathers, gold brocade - guard the shaman responsible.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2016

Band Hall of Nashville outfits the musicians and flag bearers in woven polyester jackets and pants, as well as coordinating shoes, gloves, and plumed hats called shakos.

From Inc ● Nov. 5, 2012

There were speakers, a medal from the state of Virginia and a full-dress parade by V.M.I.'s 770 cadets, resplendent in black shakos, grey tailcoats and white ducks.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the very top of the hill, the band of the Cape Mounted Rifles awaited our approach; their appearance, in their plumed shakos and scarlet trousers, being very showy.

From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Harriet Ward