pelisse
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The soldier wears a fur pelisse and holds a cymbal, which meant he was very likely to have belonged to a cavalry regiment, Ms Lavelle said.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025
A photograph from that time shows him proudly wearing his uniform, with its heavily tasselled pelisse, mostly unchanged since the Napoleonic Wars, and later favored by Jimi Hendrix.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
The pelisse illustrates how Romantic-era styles incorporated elements drawn not only from the medieval period but from five centuries of European fashion.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2016
The lure of the bygone is represented at the start, where Thomas Cole’s 1838 painting “The Past” is paired with an 1820s golden silk pelisse, or coatdress.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2016
All the little minor finishings of the female toilet appear to be more sedulously cared for than the weightier matters of the pelisse and gown.
From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Frances Milton Trollope
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