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shoulderstrap en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of shoulder strap.
When any occasion requires the Doctor to be magnificent, I am to whip off my shoulderstraps & put on his. So we shall both hv. a dress coat.
1863 January 14, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “‘I feel like Hosea Biglow’s military officer’: To Mary Channing Higginson”, in Christopher Looby, editor, The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 260:[…] Marshall-Cornwall observed from a ruined cottage[…], a position which enabled him to look down the length of the German trench and, with the aid of a powerful telescope, read the regimental numbers on the Germans' shoulderstraps.
1989, Michael Occleshaw, “I Spy . . .”, in Armour Against Fate: British Military Intelligence in the First World War, London: Columbus Books, →ISBN, page 53:The woman frowned and tinkered with one of the cheap brooches that held her shoulderstraps.
1992, Sheelagh Kelly, chapter 20, in Jorvik: A Tale of the Last Viking, London: Century, →ISBN, page 395:
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