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How to pronounce shako in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bearskin, busby
Type of chapeau, hat, lid

Examples of shako

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Credit or blame Geoffrey Beene for the hat in Slide 1 that looks something like a 19th-century shako.
From the lens.blogs.nytimes.com
Seen nearly from behind, their bayonets and their shako headgear form a relentless and immutable column.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Cadet command representative Major Allen Beck was on-site to present Sparks with her bowl jacket and shako hat.
From the kentucky.com
It shows a shako-wearing firing squad in the background, this time seen receding in a frontal rather than a rear view.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The next morning I began exploring the old town by having my picture taken with a guard in a white-feathered shako at the Palazzo Pubblico on the Piazza della Liberta.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Pieces of history for sale include a Mexican officer's sword from around 1860 for $400 to a badge from a Mexican infantry shako hat from the Alamo era for more than $3,000.
From the chron.com
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  • Bearskin: tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions
  • A shako is a tall, cylindrical military cap, usually with a peak (British English) or visor (American English) and sometimes tapered at the top. ...
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  • A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume; A bearskin or busby; The squilla or mantis shrimp
  • A tall cylindrical hat with visor, and sometimes a plume, often used as part of a band uniform.
  • A cylindrical hat, in military parlance, usually stiffened with a visor
  • Military cap in the form of a cylinder or truncated cone, often with a visor and plume (2)