Sentence examples for shako from inspiring English sources

Grenadiers earned higher pay, received special privileges, and were distinguished by their height, dashing uniform, and tall, mitre-shaped headdress (shako).

The Hungarian language has given the English language very few words: "hussar" and "shako".

At the visitors' center, Mr. Nans, who is also a board member of the Sackets Harbor Battlefield Alliance, reached into a gray metal locker and pulled out a cylindrical uniform cap, called a shako, bearing the emblem for an American artilleryman and a white plume.

Credit or blame Geoffrey Beene for the hat in Slide 1 that looks something like a 19th-century shako.

WITH their sabers, shako caps and 19th-century uniforms with tasseled epaulettes, the members of the Veteran Corps of Artillery of the State of New York could easily be mistaken, even while marching in last month's Columbus Day parade, for Napoleonic soldiers heading toward the Austerlitz front lines.

It was impossible for me to imagine the drum major out here in his shako like an animated Q-tip — there would be no prancing among the crows and ice-killed fish for him, I gloated.

By Clara E. Friedman and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, May 28 , 1949P. 19 Returning from lunch the other day, a UNESCO secretary working in the U. N. building at the east end of 42nd St. got into an elevator with a spectacularly uniformed shako-surmounted fellow.

The New Yorker, May 28 , 1949P. 19 Returning from lunch the other day, a UNESCO secretary working in the U. N. building at the east end of 42nd St. got into an elevator with a spectacularly uniformed shako-surmounted fellow.

And then the garage doors opened, and in trooped the marching band of Burlington City High School, in Burlington, New Jersey, wearing navy-blue uniforms and feathered shakos and producing on their instruments a deafening version of "Happy Birthday".

In 2005, Calvin Tomkins wrote about the extravaganza that Jeffrey Deitch threw for the artist Jeff Koons on the conclusion of his fifth decade of life: The garage doors opened, and in trooped the marching band of Burlington City High School, in Burlington, New Jersey, wearing navy-blue uniforms and feathered shakos and producing on their instruments a deafening version of "Happy Birthday".

At a ball to celebrate Anastasia's society debut, with courtiers and officers costumed in autumnal shades of buff and russet (implausibly, they wear their caps and shakos on the dancefloor), the ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska (Marianela Nuñez) is giving a performance with her partner (Federico Bonelli).