red-toupeed

Updated: May 3, 2025

It was still blowing hard, and through the open doorway I could see a thick cluster of mounted men, with plumes slanted and mantles flapping, the rain shining upon their shoulders. At the side the light from the hut struck upon the heads of two beautiful horses, and upon the heavy red-toupeed busbies of the hussars who stood at their heads.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire