pelerine
Example Sentences
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Add a Dunstable straw bonnet with its strings of satin and the frilled pelerine, and this strange young woman might have just stepped from her carriage in the most fashionable avenue in the land.
From Viola Gwyn by McCutcheon, George Barr
Though long ends are very much in favour with silk pelerines, yet there are quite as many that are quite round; such was the black satin pelerine we cited above.
From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton
She was next informed that she could not be presentable without a French pelerine of embroidered muslin.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
"Yes—pretty enough," replied Augusta, scarcely turning her head to look at it.—"Mamma, do not you think I had better have my green pelerine cut in points rather than in scollops?"
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
A strange ornament, like a pelerine, is also suspended from the neck, formed by a thick pad of glossy steel-blue feathers, which grow on a long fleshy lobe or excrescence.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter
