red-tabbed

The military judges, red-tabbed in khaki and in RAF. blue, sat in a row before a table on a raised dais at the head of the room, a major-general, an air commodore, three colonels and two wing commanders.

THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

Yet there was more than one keen-eyed, red-tabbed soldier whom she had driven during the war who could testify to the complete efficiency of those same slim members.

The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler

During one series a distinguished red-tabbed party was dispersed because the Hun did an area strafe in front, behind, and around the single gun.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

In recalling Braithwaite, he found himself picturing two persons, of both of whom he had had separate and distinct glimpses: the one the loyal man, who in years gone by had served him faithfully and shared so many of his adventures; the other the arrogant, red-tabbed superior, who had stolen his happiness without warning.

The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

At that moment the dingy swing-doors of the War Office flew open and a red-tabbed, handsome figure of a man, with gold braid on his cap and crossed swords on his epaulettes, came briskly out on to the steps.

The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

Anglican or Presbyterian communicants, which monopolises official positions, administration and honours in the entire British empire, dominates the court, and, typically, is spurred and red-tabbed.

War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war 1906

He came in, long, lean, khaki clad, red-tabbed, with, I swear, more rainbow lines on his breast, and a more pathetically childish grin on his face than ever.

The Mountebank William John Locke 1896

a party of them to dig a sleeping-place for the colonel farther into the bank that a group of officers, headed by a red-tabbed staff captain, came along.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols