What's the difference between bandoleer and bandolier?

Bandoleer


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Bandolier

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The doors to the house are fashioned from old wooden wine crates; to reach the terrace you pass through a fringed screen of corks; the table is set under a Château d'Yquem vine, and it is here that Marc Lanza serves lunch: a fresh herb salad, with the trademark vinaigrette, and the dark daube, accompanied by the Bandol wine of Domaine Tempier, the neighbouring vineyard that Olney helped to make famous.

Bandolier


Definition:

  • (n.) A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.
  • (n.) One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Showers of sparks glow amid the ruins; market stalls are elegantly swagged with bandoliers; curls of smoke rise from spent bullet casings as they hit the ground; blood spurts forth in graceful fountains.
  • (2) "I have one of the bandoliers that were used by Carson's Ulster Volunteer Force.

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