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

Excited by the chase, and emulous each to outrun the other, the colonel threw off his shako, and Briolle his sword, in the ardour of pursuit.

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune 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

Under the battered shakoes with their shapeless peaks, the tanned and emaciated faces looked like masks of wax.

From In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry by Marcel Dupont

"I see the shakoes of soldiers aboard other."

From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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

They were uniformed exactly alike in black—shakos, fur-edged pelisses, boots, and so forth—with white skull emblems on the shakos.

From The Big Time by Fritz Leiber