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- adjective Alternative form of
epauleted .
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Examples
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And, like a Ferengi Grandmaster, I'm thinking three moves ahead -- and have three extra pawns up my epauletted sleeve.
Robert Brenner: Four Star Trek: The Wrath of General Stanley McChrystal 2010
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The picture of a handsome, smiling, elegantly dressed and heavily epauletted General Petraeus is inappropriate and frankly obscene given what is happening in Iraq.
Watching the Iraq Hearings With Petraeus and Crocker - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The picture of a handsome, smiling, elegantly dressed and heavily epauletted General Petraeus is inappropriate and frankly obscene given what is happening in Iraq.
Watching the Iraq Hearings With Petraeus and Crocker - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Several near-endemic and restricted-range mammals occur, including the sun-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus solatus, VU), long-footed shrew (Crocidura crenata), lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus grandis, DD), and African smoky mouse (Heimyscus fumosus).
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The picture of a handsome, smiling, elegantly dressed and heavily epauletted General Petraeus is inappropriate and frankly obscene given what is happening in Iraq.
Watching the Iraq Hearings With Petraeus and Crocker - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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And so they passed the gold-braided and epauletted flunkey on the door, who smiled and bowed slightly in deference to Cornwall's festive alter ego, and continued on into Cosmetics.
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The frontage is mean as that of colonial ecclesiastical buildings in general, and even the epauletted façades of old São Paulo do not deserve a description.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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And so they passed the gold-braided and epauletted flunkey on the door, who smiled and bowed slightly in deference to Cornwall's festive alter ego, and continued on into Cosmetics.
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Perhaps this was the reason why a rather small and stout Hoka kept a hand thrust inside his epauletted coat.
Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 2000
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In the ballroom of this czarist-era mansion, where aristocratic belles once waltzed with epauletted officers and courtiers, candlelight transformed the heavily draped room into a warm and welcoming place of sanctuary.
Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993
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