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Definition of Shoulder strap
1. Noun. A band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag.
Generic synonyms: Band
Group relationships: Brace, Gallus, Suspender, Bandeau, Bra, Brassiere, Chemise, Shift, Shimmy, Slip, Teddy, Golf Bag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoulder Strap
Literary usage of Shoulder strap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Three stars on plain shoulder strap. For company officers, and staff officers of
... The Hussars of the Guard have a special form of shoulder strap but the ..."
2. Military and Naval Recognition Book: A Handbook on the Organization by Joel William Bunkley (1918)
"Three gold stars mounted on a gold shoulder-strap piped with red with a gold ...
Two gold stars mounted on a shoulder-strap, with three red and four gold ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1907)
"Rings should be fastened on the upper side of the can through which a shoulder
strap may be buckled, thus comfortably adjusting the extra weight on the ..."
4. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"The saber-belt, to which all the preceding are attached, consists of a waist-belt,
with two brass rings for the shoulder-strap and saber-slings, ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In these ranks the cloth of the shoulder-strap shows in one narrow strip through
the lace. In the field ranks, the cloth, covered by three bars of lace, ..."
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