I agree, the officer in the bicorne looks a real Tartar!. From Wordnik.com. [Baden Jagers 1806] Reference
A Lieutenant Colonel in a black bicorne hat walked up the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Prey]
Windham pushed back his bicorne hat and scratched at his greying scalp. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
The face beneath the tasselled bicorne hat twitched in involuntary spasm. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Enemy]
A plain blue coat, grey trousers, and unadorned bicorne hat sufficed Wellington. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
Sir Henry, sweating in his uniform, smiled beneath the tasselled point of his bicorne hat. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Regiment]
The General reined in, doffed his bicorne hat, then cast a cold glance at Spears and Sharpe. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
Killick looked at Sharpe, the movement of his head spilling water from the peaks of his bicorne hat. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
Does he temporarily conceal his – undoubtedly genetically acquired – bicorne nature with a rainbow mitre?. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Ingham is elegantly angry « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
A small pair of gold-rimmed half-spectacles, a neat hair-ribbon and a bicorne of blue felt completed the picture. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Her plumed bicorne hat had fallen off in the commotion so that her long black hair began to come out of its pins. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
Sir Augustus turned at the Convent steps, removed the bicorne hat from his sleek silver hair, and nodded at Kinney. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Enemy]
The black bicorne hats turned left, the cavalry saw the squares with horror, and the trumpets pealed above the defeated charge. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
The leather band of his bicorne hat was like a ring of steel and his white breeches were cutting into his crotch like a sawhorse. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
All the riders but one were in uniform, and the exception wore blue trousers under a grey cloak and on his head a plain bicorne hat. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Eagle]
The man had a delicate, sensitive face, a white cloak clasped with silver, and a bicorne hat shielded with oiled-cloth against the rain. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
They wore red jackets, like infantry jackets, and on their heads they wore old fashioned black bicorne hats held on by brass-plated straps. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
In honor of the emperor, he makes a chocolate in the shape of his bicorne hat, filled with marzipan, cherry liquor and bitter banana cream. From Wordnik.com. [Turning Chocolate on Its Head] Reference
There is one style of hat which seems to be, with various modifications, universally becoming, and that is the bicorne, a form of the Napoleon style of hat. From Wordnik.com. [Make Your Own Hats] Reference
Hogan heard the volley, very distantly, and then came the bells clamouring and he straightened his uniform, took off his bicorne hat, and went into the Cathedral. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
Their breeches and waistcoats had once been white, their calf-length boots, belts and crossbelts were of black leather, while their sashes were green, the same green as the high plume that each man wore on the side of his black bicorne hat. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
The waistcoat and sash, the half boots and the plumed bicorne were all too fancy for British taste, indeed they were so fancy that for a second Loup wondered if the captive was an officer, then he realized that Braudel would never have treated a captured officer with such disdain. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
He wore a grey redingote and a shabby bicorne hat. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference
Napoleon is easily recognisable in the distance, with his grey overcoat, his white horse and his bicorne hat; presently he dismounts and walks up and down across the narrow road, evidently in a state of great mental agitation. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference
There were great lords in silks and velvets of every hue, their legs encased in the finest skins of Spain; there were great ladies, in tall, pointed hennins or bicorne headdresses and floating veils, with embroidered gowns that swept down below the bellies of their richly harnessed palfreys. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference
" The Lieutenant Colonel touched the tasseled tip of his bicorne hat. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Prey]
" Lieutenant Tom Martin, of the brig-sloop Cavalier, twisted his bicorne hat in both his hands. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
His bicorne hat had no cockades. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
Erysimum bicorne, Aiton; Crambe strigosa, and C. laevigata, Brouss.), is much rarer in the Canaries than in Spain and in. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
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