Epauleted

Hibbo: Nobody wants to be criticize their Illustrious crown ‘epauleted’ ones for letting shortage of spares be a problem, that has been an ongoing problem ever since Caesar landed at White Cliffs of Dover. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Dwarf epauleted fruit bat (Micropteropus pusillus). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hamdi Bey by the epauleted shoulder and sent him spinning about. ❋ Mary Hastings Bradley (N/A)

The voices were good and the lines amusing not merely to the guards here and there but to most of their epauleted superiors who, with lights out for coolness, sat in tilted chairs on a far corner of the front veranda to catch the river breeze. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)

In the presence of the epauleted representatives of foreign nations, before a vast multitude, Franklin Pierce, President of the United ❋ Mrs. T. De Witt Talmage (1867)

In his early days, sharing the feeling then so prevalent in his class, he had been used to think of epauleted gentlemen as idlers, or worse -- "_fruges consumere nati_" Personal acquaintance, as in so many other cases, rubbed off the prejudice. ❋ William Garden Blaikie (1859)

_ for which the soldier of Teutchland wooes the goddess of war -- than we found ourselves ordered to move off the ground, by the peremptory mandate of a troop of the Royal Guard, who had followed our movement, more hungry, more thirsty, and more laced and epauleted than ourselves. ❋ Various (N/A)

In his early days, sharing the feeling then so prevalent in his class, he had been used to think of epauleted gentlemen as idlers, or worse ” “fruges consumere nati” Personal acquaintance, as in so many other cases, rubbed off the prejudice. ❋ Blaikie, William G. (1880)

The [soldier] had an epaulet [indicating] his [rank]. ❋ Cynic_droogie (2008)