shoulder strap

noun

shoulder strap

a strap over one or both of the shoulders, as to hold up a garment or to support a bag, etc

First recorded in 1680–90

When, during one sitting her right shoulder strap dropped suggestively over her arm, Sargent requested she leave it that way.

He also repainted the fallen shoulder strap, restoring it to its proper place.

It is like your shoulder-strap—our devouring sun eats gold until he leave but a red thread.

"I don't see why Minnetaki doesn't come back," he remarked carelessly, as he fastened a shoulder-strap about a bundle.

Privates had a grand ball to-night in Alabama Hotel to try to excel the shoulder-strap fizzle of Feb. 22.

In the Lancers the cap-line passes round the cap and is brought under the right shoulder-strap.

I bought a leather hand-bag with a shoulder strap, and every day joined the stream of clerks and students crossing the Common.

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