Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of belt with shoulder strap, 1915, from Sir Samuel James Browne (1824-1901), British general who invented it.
Wikipedia
General Sir Samuel James Browne (3 October 1824 – 14 March 1901) was a British Indian Army cavalry officer in India and Afghanistan, known best as the namesake of the Sam Browne belt. He was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the most prestigious award for gallantry in combat that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Sam Browne may refer to:
- Sam Browne (1824–1901), UK general
- Sam Browne (musician), UK singer
Items named Sam Browne:
- Sam Browne belt, item of clothing named for General Sam Browne
Sam Browne (1898–1972) was an English dance band singer, who became one of the most popular British dance band vocalists of the 1930s. He is remembered for singing with Jack Hylton and with Ambrose and his Orchestra, at the Mayfair Hotel and Embassy Club, with whom he made many recordings from 1930 to 1942, and for his duets and variety performances with the singer, Elsie Carlisle.
Usage examples of "sam browne".
Kathryn said pensively, hands on her Sam Browne and fingers tapping the buff leather.
Hodson (who'd fagged me at Rugby) and Macdonald the Peeler and Sam Browne and little Fred Roberts, who wasn't much more than a griff,41 but knew enough to hang around us older hands, warming himself in the glow of our fame.
Behind the wheel, the large, slumped figure wearing the Sam Browne belt with the badge on the cross-strap was singing an old song in a tuneless, droning voice: “.
But then Sam Niles wordlessly unlocked the addict's handcuffs, put them in his handcuff case, returned the key to his key ring, took the car keys from the belt of his Sam Browne and got behind the steering wheel while Harold Bloomguard crawled around the grass searching for a few granules of powder.
Chief Andrew Rademacher, who really believed he had tried his best to solve the new string of child-murders that had plagued Derry, stood on the porch of his house, thumbs in his Sam Browne belt, looking up at the clouds, and felt the same disquiet.
After that he hung his blouse, hat, Sam Browne belt, and field scarf in a locker and went outside.
Charlie's eyes settled on the officer's Sam Browne belt and brown leather shoes.
He was living in the hotel too, running around all dressed up in an officer's uniform, Sam Browne belt and lieutenant's bars and all.
A pistol was strapped to his Sam Browne belt, and he was wearing reflector sunglasses.
He remembered going there by train that one time in his undress greens with the Sam Browne belt to proclaim his professional identity, and, sure enough, the Italians had liked the United States Marines, like all civilized people.
Every bit of really first-grade leather was taken for officers boots and for Sam Browne belts.
On a Sam Browne belt a pistol holster hung, and a big silver star was pinned to his shirt at the left breast.
Their uniforms were as severely clean and pressed as any Embassy Marine's, and the handguns that hung on the Sam Browne belts were just a status symbol, never necessary to use.
Well, a few days ago he came up to my window, and he was no longer in natty khaki and Sam Browne.
When the Storekeeper First helped Joe into his blouse, expertly buttoning the epaulet over the crosspiece of the Sam Browne belt, the reason why he was being so obliging came out.