shako

Balchin, Burgess, Gluckman, Murray, Nancarrow e Shakos (2010).

The mylar plume on my shako would cling to itself damply.

The following passage from Farewell, My Lovely is, because of its length, highly unusual for Chandler but helps illustrate some traits of his sentence style: We curved through the bright mile or two of the Strip, past the antique shops with famous screen names on them, past the windows full of point lace and ancient pewter, past the gleaming new nightclubs with famous chefs and equally famous gambling rooms, run by polished graduates of the Purple Gang, past the Georgian-Colonial vogue, now old hat, past the handsome modernistic buildings in which the Hollywood flesh-peddlers never stop talking money, past a drive-in lunch which somehow didn't belong, even though the girls wore white silk blouses and drum majorettes' shakos and nothing below the hips but glazed kid Hessian boots.

These include British uniforms, sashes, belt buckles, shakos, buttons, cap badges and bottles, as well as items captured from the Russians such as muskets, helmets and great coats.

BG Steven Hawkins, commander of an Army engineer task force, shakos hands with an Iraqi engineer during a visit to a Baghdad power plant.

Their packs, shakos, and red coats were stored in wooden boxes brought aboard by each man for that purpose and stored in the hold.