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Shako

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume.

n. A bearskin or busby.

n. The squilla or mantis shrimp.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A kind of military cap or headdress.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A head-dress worn by soldiers, especially infantry, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions

Word Usage

"I plan to use my SYW Black Hussars in the Napoleonic game since some of the Prussian hussars still wore the mirliton in 1806 although the Black Hussars were switching over to the shako."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

lid chapeau hat

Variant

shakoes

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

sallet stormcoat épée gorget arquebuse firelance manteau busby headpiece corselet