pelerine

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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

Dresses were all of one piece then, and were made low with short baby sleeves, but a pelerine was made with the dress, which was really an over-waist with two little capes over the shoulders.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

He has a stiff spreading beard, running with water, and overlapping a sort of pelerine, ornamented with fourteen shells, seven before and seven behind.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor

Reasoning thus, and much better than this, she was very particular about her hat, and French pelerine of fluted lawn, and frock of pale violet trimmed on either side with gathered muslin.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

"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