Definition of "shako" [shak•o]

• A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume. (noun)

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• "But my tinfoil shako makes me look like such a playa!"
• "Tell me do, who's the guy in the green coat off to one side in the shako?"
• "I plan to use my SYW Black Hussars in the Napoleonic game since some of the Prussian hussars still wore the mirliton in 1806 although the Black Hussars were switching over to the shako."