kepis

"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.

Fiancée 2010

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.

In France, Muslims prefer Catholic school. Ann Althouse 2008

Or are today's replicas actually better than the kepis of the 1860s in that regard?

Archive 2008-03-09 papabear 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.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

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.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

One dresses to fish them as one dresses for the desert: long sleeves, long pants, nose masks, kepis.

Getting Slammed 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.

The Royal Family 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.

Asimov's Science Fiction 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.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

"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.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975