head-and-shoulder

Updated: May 23, 2025

Some of its members wear armour, with helmets and black-lacquered iron visors, and carry 'martoe, or 'fire-charms, and various necessary implements; others are clad in head-and-shoulder pieces and gauntlets of light chain-armour, to protect them while pulling down and unroofing houses, which is their especial duty.

Jacob Mortimer Wier Silver - Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs

She sought out a fresh canvas, set it on the easel, and plunged, forthwith, into a rough head-and-shoulder study of her husband. Now time no longer stood still. Michael was forgotten. And, while her brush sped hither and thither, she crooned low and clear, the song that had proved the open sesame to her cave of enchantment.

Maud Diver - The Great Amulet