pelerine
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Jack's ribald advice to buy a pelerine, and a green-loden Gemsjäger hat with a feather, stirred me neither to smiles nor anger, for Molly and I were already deep in exploration.
From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
She is dressed in winter walking costume: a large hat,—fur-trimmed pelerine, and a large muff.
From Pride and Predjudice, a play by Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye
The corsage low and plain, with a pelerine which passes along the back and shoulders, and is brought down to the front of the waist in a point.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
She is clad in a loose dress of sombre colour, cut with a pelerine; and nothing but the one bright spot formed by the white collar reveals the severity of the costume.
From Bastien Lepage by Fr. Crastre
Patsy held up a buff-coloured satin gown, pointing out with pride where he had filled up the deficiencies of a very low neck with the top of a green silk pelerine.
From The Weans at Rowallan by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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