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n. A belt worn diagonally across the upper body.
Usage examples of "crossbelt".
There was no pipeclay here to be caked onto crossbelts and musket slings, no blackball to be used on boots and no grease and powder to be slathered on the hair.
Sharpe, dressed in tiger-striped tunic and boots, but with no hat, crossbelt, pouches or musket, ran after the Colonel.
Frederickson took a silver whistle from the loop on his crossbelt and blew six blasts on it.
The small bolstered whistle, mounted on his leather crossbelt, was dented flat in its centre.
Her fingers were touching the silver whistle on his crossbelt, and her startling green eyes were filled with amusement.
Belt, crossbelt, ammunition pouch, sash, and sword completed Major Sharpe.
Sharpe stayed, watching the far door shake, then it splintered inwards and he saw the blue uniform and white crossbelt and he backed away down the steps.
The cartridge box, which hung beneath the bayonet at the end of the crossbelt, had a brass badge of a grenade mounted on its lid.
A small group of chasseurs in green coats, black silver-looped shakoes and with carbines slung on hooks on their white crossbelts trotted close by.
Their crossbelts were black and their turbans and waist sashes crimson.
Sharpe had already undone his crossbelts and was shrugging off the wool coat, grunting with the pain that the exertion gave to his back.
Over the tunic he wore two crossbelts and an ordinary belt from which hung a bayonet and a cartridge pouch.
Bampfylde had ordered the Green Jackets to rest and replaced them with Marines whose scarlet coats and white crossbelts seemed bright in the starlit night.
He glanced at the farm, bent to pluck his cloak loose of his stirrup leather where it had wrapped itself as he mounted, then saw the red coats and white crossbelts where the Marines were concealed in the hedge-shadow that was still white with frost.
Then a slight wind rippled the crops in the valley and swirled the smoke away from the French crest to reveal that men in blue coats, their white crossbelts bright, were marching down the far slope.