Aide-de-camp
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An aide-de-camp is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military, police or government officer, or to a member of a royal family or a head of state. The term co
A French Imperial Army aide-de-camp (right)
An officer of the Bangladesh Armed Forces serving as aide-de-camp to President Hafizuddin Ahmed
Aide-de-camp Colonel Jean-Claude Cloutier with lieutenant-governor of Quebec Lise Thibault in 2006
Royal Canadian Navy shoulder boards worn by honorary aides-de-camp to the lieutenant-governors of British Columbia (left) Quebec (centre), and New Brunswick (right)
Aiguillette
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An aiguillette, also spelled aguillette, aiglet or aglet, is a cord with metal tips or lace tags, or the decorative tip itself.
Aide-de-camp
…This is not to be confused with an adjutant, who is the senior administrator of a military unit. The badge of office for an aide-de-camp is usually the aiguillette, a braided cord in gold or other colours, worn on the shoulder of a uniform. Whether it is worn on the left or the right shoulder is dictated by protocol…
Commissioned officers (front row) and non-commissioned officers (second row) of the Household Cavalry in full dress wearing aiguillettes
Hat and gown trimmed with pairs of aiglets, 1538
Gowns decorated with gold aiglets, 1559
Rose ribbons tipped with large aiglets set with pearls, c. 1560s