shako
IPA: ʃˈɑkoʊ
noun
- A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume.
- (Britain) A bearskin or busby.
- The squilla or mantis shrimp.
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Examples of "shako" in Sentences
- I think the shako was police headgear too.
- Gone were the red coats and bearskin shakos.
- Blue shako with silver centered star and white plume.
- But my tinfoil shako makes me look like such a playa!
- The other two pillars are Kirat Karni and and kay Shako.
- This comprised a shako, light blue tunic and red breeches.
- The uniform was topped off with a black shako with a plume.
- However, the shako she depicts the regiment wearing is incorrect.
- In terms of headwear the hussar wore either a shako or fur busby.
- The Fusiliers Grenadiers shako had white cords and a tall red plume.
- This headdress developed initially as a square topped variant of a shako.
- Tell me do, who's the guy in the green coat off to one side in the shako?
- Vielles – Haudriettes, found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun.
- Then I dabbled with them a bit, painting one elite company trooper in colpack and one regular company trooper in shako.
- The AB figures are sculpted in the early pattern shako, so must be meant to represent the scheutzen from a light infantry unit, so I will paint them as their parent unit.
- 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.
- So borrowing from a suggestion from one of the lads on The Miniatures Page (TMP), I am thinking that the grenadiers in the musketeer regiments (are you following this so far?) will wear the shako and busch plume and have a troop quality that is no better than a musketeer.
- Alsop also designed the limited edition range of 1805 (bicorn) and 1809 (shako) French infantry, a limited range of 1805 Austrian infantry, and his rather extensive American Civil War range (which is one of my favorite ranges of all time for any historical period - exquisite sculpts they were).
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