Crossword-Solution: EPAULETS
We have 16 clues for the answer “EPAULETS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Adornments on officers' shoulders | 1 answer |
| Decorations on Gen. Grant's shoulders | 1 answer |
| Ornamental shoulder pads | 1 answer |
| Shoulder accoutrements | 1 answer |
| Shoulder adornments | 1 answer |
| Shoulder boards. | 1 answer |
| Shoulder decorations | 1 answer |
| Shoulder ornaments | 1 answer |
| Shoulder pads | 1 answer |
| Soldier's shoulder pieces | 1 answer |
| Uniform adornments | 1 answer |
| Uniform markings | 1 answer |
| Part of a dress uniform. | 2 answers |
| Symbols of rank | 2 answers |
| DECORATE, AS WITH ORNAMENTS | 10 answers |
| ARCHITECTURAL ADORNMENTS | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EPAULETS (5)
Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
Upon his shoulders were brass epaulets such as are connected only in one's mind with the ancient chorus ladies of the light operas of fifteen or twenty years ago.
The beau-ideal of the English aristocracy, of course with some exceptions, is some young fellow with an imperial title, a military personage of course, for what is military is so particularly genteel, with flaming epaulets, a cocked hat and plume, a prancing charger, and a band of fellows called generals and colonels, with flaming epaulets, cocked hats and plumes, and prancing chargers vapouring behind him.
When he was safely in his grave she canonized him; she put his picture and his sword, belt and epaulets in the conspicuous place in the parlor; she used his record for gallantry to get herself social position and a place of honor at public gatherings.
Sir Thomas had come down the hill, and seeing the wounded officer on the ground with a group around him, said in passing, ‘Well, Fox, this is a bad job, but it will make up the pair of epaulets, which is something.’ ‘Yes sir,’ said the dying man feebly, ‘but without a pair of legs.’ Half an hour later he was dead.
Quotes with EPAULETS (3)
At the entrance of the Führerbunker, a dandelion pushed through the crack between cobblestones. The cadet did not notice that he stepped on it as they entered the bunker. A dark cloud of smoke rose from a burning ministry. Zeller fantasized that the filth that surrounded him was cleansed. He saw himself, a portly and tailored leader in a white uniform with gold epaulets, buttons, and stripes. He imagined himself in an immaculate, white city in Antarctica.
He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy . . . who had left upon every field of victory in Europe drops of that same blood which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown grey before his time in discipline and in command, who had lived with his sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade blackened by powder, his forehead wrinkled by the cap, in the barracks, in the camp, in the bivouac, in the ambulance, and who after twenty years had returned fro…
Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We're in a democratic country.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1953–2022).