Kepis

Word KEPIS
Character 5
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Definitions and meanings of "Kepis"

What do we mean by kepis?

A cap with a flat circular top and a visor, particularly associated with French uniforms.

It is a type of hat worn in wartimes in the early 20th Century. It is also the name of a popular streamer 'KepiPepi". Urban Dictionary

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The word "kepis" in example sentences

"Aht pipes, straighten up - orficer comin '," cries one of the troopers, and they scrambled up hastily, adjusting their kepis, doing up their shirt-buttons, as two officers came strolling across from the tents a couple of hundred yards away. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or are today's replicas actually better than the kepis of the 1860s in that regard? ❋ Papabear (2008)

It's just that the Christians who were not allowed to wear showy crosses, and the Jews who were not allowed to wear their kepis/yarmulkes didn't make so much of a stink. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Paris was newly transformed by the brilliant Georges Haussmann, prefect of the Seine, and the picture-book troops of Napoleon III, in their kepis and pantalons rouges, were thought to be the most formidable on earth, the Franco-Prussian war being still over the horizon. ❋ DAVID McCULLOUGH. (2005)

One dresses to fish them as one dresses for the desert: long sleeves, long pants, nose masks, kepis. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He wears a Napoleonic hat and has a fairly large but not very efficient army, whose uniforms suggest those of nineteenth-century France or Italy: his soldiers wear red pants, white jackets, and plumed kepis. ❋ Lurie, Alison (2004)

Down the street, Terzian saw the distinctive flat-topped kepis of a pair of policemen bobbing toward him from the direction of the Palais de Justice, and felt a surge of relief. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"Aht pipes, straighten up — orficer comin '," cries one of the troopers, and they scrambled up hastily, adjusting their kepis, doing up their shirt-buttons, as two officers came strolling across from the tents a couple of hundred yards away. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1975)

I turned at the High Commissioner's house, where the Foreign Legion stood on guard in their white kepis and their scarlet epaulettes, crossed by the Cathedral and came back by the dreary wall of the Vietnamese Surete that seemed to smell of urine and injustice. ❋ Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 (1955)

The rush of the soldiers over the wide plains and the drawbridge looked irresistible -- the men swarmed down the bank and over the ditch -- one saw a confused mass of red trousers and kepis. ❋ Mary Alsop King Waddington (N/A)

There were posies in their kepis, and bouquets were pinned by the plump hands of peasant girls to the jackets of the soldiers of the line, gunners, cuirassiers, dragoons, and fusiliers marins. ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)

Upon these moss-covered graves were the old kepis of the gunners. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The trousers of bright scarlet cloth, the red kepis which he had hailed with such joy in the expedition of the Marne, no longer existed. ❋ Unknown (1918)

When uttering these words, Doña Luisa always saw Julio as he looked in a pale photograph which he had sent his father from the trenches -- with kepis and military cloak, a gun in his right hand, and his face shadowed by a growing beard. ❋ Unknown (1918)

His surprise increased as he became convinced that they were Frenchmen, wearing kepis. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Then came great herds of cattle raising thick, whirling clouds of dust in the narrow parts of the road, prodded on by the sticks and yells of the shepherds in kepis. ❋ Unknown (1918)

With their cloaks adorned with medals, their theatrical Moorish garments, their kepis and their African headdresses, this heroic band presented, nevertheless, a lamentable aspect. ❋ Unknown (1918)

They began to meet artillerymen, many of them not in uniform but wearing the military kepis. ❋ Unknown (1918)

His [Kepi] [fell off] his [head]. ❋ Pixelgull (2022)

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