kepi

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The family relinquished some of the artifacts—the kepi, belt, sword, corps badge he wore on July 1, 1863–to the National Park Service.

From Time • Jun. 30, 2015

In a full-page illustration by Winslow Homer, published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly in 1861, Wallace sits astride his horse in a pair of billowing trousers, an exotic-looking kepi perched on his head.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2013

In his black tunic, blue breeches and patent-leather kepi with bronze double-eagle, he was a doughty figure in the Czarist army.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, removing his two-starred kepi, De Gaulle gave Churchill the standard French embrace of a peck on both cheeks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Monsieur sticks his kepi on one side of his head, and struts and swaggers along the Boulevard as though he were a bantam cock.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry