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Bandolier   /bˌændəlˈɪr/   Listen
Bandolier

noun
1.
A broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers.  Synonym: bandoleer.






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"Bandolier" Quotes from Famous Books



... forcing our way through the flocks which continually blocked the road. All the way we ploughed through herds of cattle and stampeding sheep and goats, much to the disgust of their shepherds. These men, chiefly vicious-looking Albanians, with loosely-slung rifle, and round their waist a bandolier of cartridges, lend a wildness to the lonely road which is likely to mislead the new-comer; and should one of them empty his revolver light-heartedly in the air, to be answered by another some distance away, the impression ...
— The Land of the Black Mountain - The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro • Reginald Wyon

... Chris went and bought his clothes, bandolier and belt, and saddlery, and then returned to the hotel and told his mother how he had got on, and that a horse and rifle would, he hoped, be obtained ...
— With Buller in Natal - A Born Leader • G. A. Henty



Words linked to "Bandolier" :   bandoleer, cartridge belt



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