Word: chevron
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only a short walk for a European. When Hamids, or "Ham and," as I later called him, was too young to object very strenuously his parents cut a series of little "V" a on his forehead, one above the other in the manner of an inverted, or English, chevron, and then rubbed mud and same into the wounds so that they would stand out prettily. "Nothing is too good for our boy," they probably said, as they dragged him around to the local tattoo expert, to have the Hand of Fatime, (for luck), tattooed on one cheek, and an extremely...
...they settle into their chairs, visiting notables may be picked out by colored stripes and chevrons on their hoods. A lady with maize and white chevron is from Bryn Mawr. Cornellians wear carnelian and two white chevrons. Olive and blue is Tulane; gold silk and blue, the University of California; brown and blue, Tufts...