The grey coatee, decorated with bright buttons and broad gold lace, the shako with tall plumes, the spotless white trousers, set off the trim young figures to the best advantage; and the full-dress parade of the cadet battalion, marked by discipline and precision in every movement, is still one of the most attractive of military spectacles.
"Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War"
G. F. R. Henderson
The coatee issued in the early days of the war had already given place to a short-waisted and single-breasted jacket.
"Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War"
G. F. R. Henderson
"And hardly that," Terence laughed, "for the adjutant was down upon you pretty sharply; your coatee was all buttoned up wrong; your hair had not been brushed, and stuck up all ways below your shako; your sword-belt was all awry, and you looked worse than you did when I brought you home."
"With Moore At Corunna"
G. A. Henty