Definitions
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- noun An
ammunition belt , worn over theshoulder , having loops orpockets forcartridges .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers
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Examples
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At this point, a further word about this "bandolier" or "sash" wearing of the folded chasuble seems relevant, particularly as we prepare to consider the folded chasuble in modern usage.
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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At this point, a further word about this "bandolier" or "sash" wearing of the folded chasuble seems relevant, particularly as we prepare to consider the folded chasuble in modern usage.
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Sabriel was awesome, pretty much everything I could want in a novel – in brief, a teenaged necromancer with a pale skin and black hair and a glowing, rune-covered sword battles the forces of evil with a bandolier of silver bells that send the dead back to where the dead should be.
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Now, as an Al Qaeda field commander sporting a bandolier of bullets, he is threatening the United States and has been hailed by a militant Web site as a veteran guerrilla and "a fomenter of war."
News about one freed Guantanamo Bay prisoner that you won't find reported on the BBC Not a sheep 2009
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Sabriel was awesome, pretty much everything I could want in a novel – in brief, a teenaged necromancer with a pale skin and black hair and a glowing, rune-covered sword battles the forces of evil with a bandolier of silver bells that send the dead back to where the dead should be.
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He cut a dashing figure on horseback with his sombrero, bandolier and moustache.
Pancho Villa, once a terrorist, now celebrated in New Mexico 2011
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He firmed his hand on the sword and took a grenade from his bandolier, pulling the pin with his teeth and spitting it out.
Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011
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I donned my jacket which did not fit well at all over my web gear and bandolier of ammo.
TEOTWAWKI: The Long Walk Home, Ch.12 “Food Fight” « Mark12ministries’s Weblog 2010
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Alexander held his sword ready, counting again the number of grenades in his bandolier.
Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011
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He cut a dashing figure on horseback with his sombrero, bandolier and moustache.
Pancho Villa, once a terrorist, now celebrated in New Mexico 2011
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