paletot

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He started up from the table, calling for his furred paletot, and gave orders that his sleigh and horses should be brought round.

From Mabel's Mistake by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

It was the heavenly fashion then to wear a long, light, loose paletot of China silk—the early dust-coat, before it had been spoiled.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada

And, taking a cigar from his case, he lighted it from Guilmard's, as, with hands in his paletot, he sat negligently on the wall, surveying the scene below him.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

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 Neopolitan pattern.

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne

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