bandolier

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1. An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

   We had each bandoliers of cartridges.

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

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   The vivid, untrammeled life appealed to him[…]; but he was wise and knew that once peace was established there would be no room in Cuba for the Sin Verguenza. “None better to face peril or adversity with, but a change is coming, and one cannot always wear the bandolier,” he said.

   1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 32, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC

   […] with the casual but combative look of the urban photographer, black T-shirt and baseball boots, twenty-pocketed waistcoat and bandolier of film.

   2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN