epaulette
noun/ˈepəlet/
/ˈepəlet/
(especially British English) (North American English usually epaulet)
- a decoration on the shoulder of a coat, jacket, etc., especially when part of a military uniformWord Originlate 18th cent.: from French épaulette, diminutive of épaule ‘shoulder’, from Latin spatula in the late Latin sense ‘shoulder blade’.
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