epaulette

See also: Epaulette and épaulette

English

From French épaulette, from épaule (“shoulder”) +‎ -ette (diminutive).

epaulette (plural epaulettes)

An ornamentation, worn on the shoulders of a military uniform, as a sign of rank.
Synonyms: shoulder board, shoulder mark, shoulder strap
- 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors‎^[1]:
  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; […]
A similar piece of trimming on a lady’s dress.
A plate on the anterior wings of some insects.
Synonym: tegula
The red patch on the shoulders of a red-winged blackbird.

ornamentation

Belarusian: паго́н m (pahón), эпале́т m (epaljét)
Bulgarian: еполе́т m (epolét), паго́н (bg) m (pagón)
Catalan: xarretera (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 肩章 (zh) (jiānzhāng)
Czech: nárameník (cs) m, epoleta f
Esperanto: epoleto
Finnish: olkain (fi), epoletti (fi)
French: épaulette (fr) f
German: Schulterstück n, Schulterklappe (de) f, Achselklappe f, Epaulette (de) f, Schulterbesatz m
Greek: επωμίδα (el) f (epomída)
Ido: epoleto (io)
Irish: guailleog f
Italian: spallina (it) f, mostrina (it) f
Japanese: 肩章 (ja) (けんしょう, kenshō)
Korean: 견장(肩章) (ko) (gyeonjang)
Macedonian: нараменица f (naramenica), еполета f (epoleta)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: мөрдэс (mördes)
Ottoman Turkish: اوموزلق (omuzluk)
Persian: سردوشی (fa) (sarduši), پاگون (fa) (pâgon)
Plautdietsch: Schullastekj n
Polish: epolet (pl) m, galon (pl) m, naramiennik (pl) m, pagon (pl) m
Portuguese: dragona f
Russian: пого́н (ru) m (pogón), эполе́т (ru) m (epolét)
Slovak: epoleta f
Spanish: hombrera f, charretera (es) f
Swedish: epålett (sv) c
Thai: อินทรธนู (th) (in-tá-nuu)
Ukrainian: пого́н m (pohón), еполе́т m (epolét)

trimming