pelerine
Example Sentences
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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 was next informed that she could not be presentable without a French pelerine of embroidered muslin.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
Upon second thoughts, I think I will have the green pelerine scolloped, and the blue one pointed.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
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 Victor Hugo
This pelerine is edged with two rows of fringe.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
