The cursed dye which I had put on for Othello, I had never washed off,-and there with a huge bear-skin shako, and a pair of black, bushy whiskers, shone my huge, black, and polished visage, glowering at itself in the looking-glass.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
His shako and sword lay near him, but his sabertasche was under his head.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
In 1843 the first "Albert shako" had appeared, and Leech, in a cartoon called "Prince Albert's Studio," exhibited it as a pretended work of art in the most ludicrous light.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann