A faded flannel shirt and a silk bandanna tied about his throat completed this weird accoutrement, which was topped by a long-vizored cap and a dilapidated canvas gunny sack, the latter but half full and slung lightly over one shoulder.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
Before attempting this, it was necessary to divest themselves of any suspicious articles, either of baggage or accoutrement; indeed, they left every scrap of clothing behind, except what they carried on their persons, and one change of under-raiment sewn up in the folds of a rug.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence
But is there any record of such an accoutrement as being that of a sergeant in the British army?
"The Social History of Smoking"
G. L. Apperson