best-turned-out

Updated: May 20, 2025

Having satisfied himself that to burnish further its glittering buttons would be to gild refined gold, he commenced a vigorous brushing for it was now his high ambition to "get the stick" in other words to be dismissed from guard-duty as reward for being the best-turned-out man on parade.... As he reached up to his shelf for his gauntlets and pipe-clay box, Trooper Phelim O'Shaughnessy swaggered over with much jingle of spur and playfully smote him, netherly, with his cutting whip.

Percival Christopher Wren - Snake and Sword: A Novel