Retrace one's steps

Usage examples of turnback.

She felt the turnback move in her stomach, a weird sensation that made her yelp.

She still felt gratified over how well the turnback had worked, though it had been Arisilde who had dealt the final blow to Ixion.

The lapels and turnback cuffs of his coat still bore remnants of what had been an expensive job of gold-thread embroidery.

Bragg pulled loose-fitting trousers over his leggings and, flattening his heavy turnback lapels, drew on a rumpled raincoat, buttoning it to the top so no hint of scarlet peeped out.

Nicholas, Florian put a hand in her pocket, twisted the foil off one of the turnbacks and palmed it as she pulled her hand out.

Their dark blue coats had red turnbacks and tails, and their bearskins were faced with brass and chained with silver.

Tachyon was waiting just beneath the ABC skybox, wearing his cavalier coat with the slashes and turnbacks, the riding breeches and boots.

The fresh Battalion marching from behind the Cascajal was dressed in white jackets with red turnbacks and collars.

Their cuffs, their lapels, and the turnbacks on their coat-tails had been dyed with the sunniest yellow the cloth factories could produce.

The same gold trimmed black cord edged their buttonholes and collars, while the facings, cuffs and turnbacks of their coats were of emerald green.

The stranger wore white breeches and waistcoat, a dark blue coat with white turnbacks at cuff and collar, trimmed heavily in gold, with gold buttons that bore fouled anchors.

The same gold-trimmed black cord edged their buttonholes and collars, while the facings, cuffs and turnbacks of their coats were of emerald green.

Knowles had a glimpse of red turnbacks and yellow facings, but then he was jumping forward, remembering that Sharpe always attacked, and the sabre twisted a bayonet aside, flicked up, and he had the man in the throat.

The coat had been given new white turnbacks and cuffs by Clare Wall, and Sharpe had done his best to make the jacket wrinkled and dusty, but it still looked expensive.

While European armies had adopted close-bodied coats or jackets in the course of the Napoleonic wars, American uniforms remained the traditional cutaway style, with elaborate lapels, facings, and turnbacks.