shoulderstrap

plural shoulderstraps

1. alternativeAlternative form of shoulder strap.

   The woman frowned and tinkered with one of the cheap brooches that held her shoulderstraps.

   1992, Sheelagh Kelly, chapter 20, in Jorvik: A Tale of the Last Viking, London: Century, →ISBN, page 395

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   When any occasion requires the Doctor to be magnificent, I am to whip off my shoulderstraps & put on his. So we shall both hv. a dress coat.

   1863 January 14, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “‘I feel like Hosea Biglow’s military officer’: To Mary Channing Higginson”, in Christopher Looby, editor, The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 260

   […] Marshall-Cornwall observed from a ruined cottage[…], a position which enabled him to look down the length of the German trench and, with the aid of a powerful telescope, read the regimental numbers on the Germans' shoulderstraps.

   1989, Michael Occleshaw, “I Spy . . .”, in Armour Against Fate: British Military Intelligence in the First World War, London: Columbus Books, →ISBN, page 53