paletot

Example Sentences

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This fullness is owing to its being cut in a style like the paletot.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)

Then the maid wears a wideawake and a paletot.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James

And the colonel rejoined, "Tiens! not entirely a strong-minded female yet, I see," and as he spoke he helped her take off her long brown paletot.

From Erlach Court by Schubin, Ossip

She wore a puce silk paletot, and a brown hat trimmed with black lace; an unbecoming costume for one so tall.

From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry

Miss Lees is less nautically attired; having but slipped over her morning dress a paletot of the ordinary kind, and on her head a plumed hat of the Neapolitan pattern.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne