Sashes traditionally form part of formal military attire ( compare the sword-belt known as a baldric, and the cummerbund ).

A cavalryman wearing a mail shirt with a baldric over his right shoulder.

A baldric ( also baldrick, bawdrick, bauldrick as well as some other, mostly rare or obsolete, variations ) is a belt worn over one shoulder that is typically used to carry a weapon ( usually a sword ) or other implement such as a bugle or drum.

During ancient Roman times the balteus ( plural baltei ) was a type of baldric commonly used to suspend a sword.

* Benedick, from William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, says " But that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead or hang my bugle in an invisible baldric all women shall pardon me.

* A baldric features prominently in Chapter 4 of Alexandre Dumas, père's The Three Musketeers, in which D ' Artagnan has his nearly-disastrous first encounters with Porthos ( who is wearing one ), Aramis, and Athos.

In The Next Generation episode " Conundrum ", Worf mistakenly believes that the baldric indicates his rank or authority, so he briefly assumes command of the Enterprise.

Jean-Luc Picard admonishes Worf in Star Trek: Insurrection, " Straighten your baldric.

* In The Fellowship of the Ring, Boromir is described: " On a baldric he wore a great horn tipped with silver that now was laid upon his knees.

* In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Gawain returns from his battle with the Green Knight wearing the green girdle " obliquely, like a baldric, bound at his side ,/ below his left shoulder, laced in a knot, in betokening the blame he had borne for his fault.

* The costume of the character He-Man from Masters of the Universe includes a baldric.

* A Sam Browne belt is a modern invention similar in function to the baldric.

* In Morris Dancing a baldric is one of a crossed pair of sashes or ribbons, one worn over each shoulder.

* Richard Rahl carries The Sword of Truth on a baldric in Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy series of the same name.

There is some limited data from woodcuts and textual fragments that Mongol light horse archers and some Chinese soldiers wore a slung baldric over the shoulder, allowing longer blades to be strapped across the back.

The length of sabres varied, and most were carried in a scabbard hanging from a shoulder belt known as a baldric or from a waist-mounted sword belt, usually with slings of differing lengths to permit the scabbard to hang below the rider's waist level.

This uniform also included a black baldric that was also embroidered with gold.

The bridge crew attempts to gain control of the situation, and Worf — wearing his baldric — assumes because he is decorated that he is the captain of the ship, and assumes command.

The baldric was a later belt worn diagonally over the right shoulder down to the waist at the left carrying the sword, and its buckle therefore was as important as that on a Roman soldier ’ s armor.

It may also have had a carrying strap ( or baldric ) as Thracian peltasts slung their shields on their backs when evading the enemy.

The all-black was replaced by tan jackets and white pants with a red baldric.

It was generally hung from a baldric under the left arm.

It is often the case that battle honours not carried on the colours ( limited by space and design ) will be emblazoned on drum major's baldric.

He also wears an ornate baldric, similar to a sash, embroidered with the band's crest and the Marine Corps ' battle honors, as well as miniatures of his own medals.

He carries a baldric of knives.

* Otocolobus manul manul ( Pallas, 1776 ) — inhabits the northern part of the range: Jida River, south of Lake Baikal, eastern Siberia ;

( the Watcher is part of a special race of beings who fulfill this function that are posted on planets thruout the Cosmos ); the Lords of Karma – Alice A. Bailey mentioned three Lords of Karma but did not name them ; they are called in the Ascended Master Teachings the Karmic Board and they are stated to number seven and each of them is identified by name: The Great Divine Director ( 1st ray ), The Goddess of Liberty ( 2nd ray ), Lady Master Nada ( 3rd ray ), Cyclopea ( 4th ray ), Pallas Athena ( 5th ray ), Lady Master Portia ( 6th ray ), and Kwan Yin ( 7th ray ).

The arrival at Troy of the Palladium, fashioned by Athena in remorse for the death of Pallas, as part of the city's founding myth, was variously referred to by Greeks, from the seventh century BC onwards.

* The reception of Beowulf by the coast guard with drawn spear and a challenge but the situation is quickly smoothed over by an explanation of why the ship has arrived parallels Aeneas ' landing and very similar reception with drawn spear by Pallas in book VIII of the Aeneid.

* Youths riding around on horses at the funeral of a great man-Anchises and Pallas in the Aeneid and Beowulf in Beowulf.

* Pallas ( Vergil, Aeneid 11. 89 )

** Pallas ( son of Evander ), a prominent character in the Aeneid

His own works, which circulated in manuscript in his lifetime, include brief works on the Procession of the Holy Ghost, and letters to his brothers, to L. Bruni, Guauni, Traversari, and to Pallas Strozzi, as well as two which were eventually printed, his Erotemata Civas Questiones which was the first basic Greek grammar in use in Western Europe, first published in 1484 and widely reprinted, and which enjoyed considerable success not only among his pupils in Florence, but also among later leading humanists, being immediately studied by Thomas Linacre at Oxford and by Desiderius Erasmus at Cambridge ; and Epistolæ tres de comparatione veteris et novæ Romæ ( Three Letters Comparing Ancient and Modern Rome ).

Book 9 records an assault by Nisus and Euryalus on the Rutulians, 10, the death of Evander's young son Pallas, and 11 the death of the Volscian warrior princess Camilla and the decision to settle the war with a duel between Aeneas and Turnus.

The bonds between Aeneas and Ascanius, Aeneas and Anchises, Evander and Pallas, Mezentius and Lausus are all worthy of note.

Aeneas considers but upon seeing the belt of Pallas on Turnus, he is consumed by rage and finishes him off.

Among other sacred objects in the temple was the Palladium, a statue of Pallas Athena ) supposedly brought by Aeneas from Troy.

" Palladium " especially signified the wooden statue ( xoanon ) of Pallas Athena that Odysseus and Diomedes stole from the citadel of Troy and which was later taken to the future site of Rome by Aeneas.

Then to his glance appeared the accurst swordbelt surmounting Turnus ' shoulder, shining with its familiar studs — the strap Young Pallas wore when Turnus wounded him and left him dead upon the field ; now Turnus bore that enemy token on his shoulder — enemy still.

His son Pallas apparently died childless, leaving the natives under Turnus to ravage his kingdom ; however, the gens Fabia claimed descent from Evander.

In Book X, Turnus slays the son of Evander, the young prince Pallas.

Virgil marks the death of Pallas by mentioning the inevitable downfall of Turnus.