Noun: epaulette
| Singular | epaulette |
| Plural | epaulettes |
Sample Sentences
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He would have answered for it at the end of a quarter of an hour that some of the glass cases contained swords and epaulettes of ancient colonels and generals; medals and orders once pinned over hearts that had long since ceased to beat; […] [1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like epaulette
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French épaulette, from épaule (“shoulder”) + -ette (diminutive). See: French Nouns '
épaulette'.