paletot

Example Sentences

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He took up his paletot from the chair onto which he had thrown it on his entrance, and threw it over his shoulder.

From In Direst Peril by Murray, David Christie

Then the maid wears a wideawake and a paletot.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James

Mr. Leech represented the other day certain delicate creatures with bewitching countenances encased in several varieties of that amazing garment, the ladies' paletot.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John

The queen's shawl, or the king's paletot, were never so well carried as by Baum.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

If the paletot and the wrapper wish to prove any claims to gentle birth, they cannot do better than refer their wearers to the father of English poets.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various