pelerine
Example Sentences
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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
I wore my black velvet and point lace pelerine, with the diamond star he gave me after the Jutley election.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 by Various
Susan, at breakfast, her shoulders wrapped in a serious-toned pelerine, said little.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
No demon of calculation comes between her and the genius of taste, when the milliner suggests an extra flounce of Marines, or a pelerine of Honiton.
From The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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
