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Definition of Shoulder patch
1. Noun. Patch worn on the shoulder of a military uniform to indicate rank.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoulder Patch
Literary usage of Shoulder patch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1890)
"... scapulars glossy steel-green, forming a shoulder-patch ; lesser wing-coverts
brown, with a slight shade of glossy green ; median and greater coverts ..."
2. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1893)
"The metallic colour of the shoulder- patch and rump-band is also deeper and of
a silvery blue. ' Gould, in the 'Birds of Asia' (vol. v. pi. ..."
3. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"Adult male in summer : crown black in sharp contrast to white superciliary ;
shoulder patch reddish brown; back brownish gray, streaked with black; ..."
4. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"As a model to show how the keys are used, let us identify, first, a male adult
Red-winged Blackbird—a black bird with a red and buff shoulder-patch. ..."
5. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... so called from the feathered legs, is brown above, with a white shoulder-patch,
white tip to the barred tail, and various bullish markings; the head, ..."
6. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1882)
"Another, not nearly so well developed in colors, and in which the white shoulder-
patch is entirely wanting, proved a male ou dissection, possibly only one ..."
7. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1902)
"... head anil shoulder patch ; nape bright ... 3 rest of upper parts streaked ;
in full plumage shoulder patch deep black tipped with white. ..."
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