inverness

Example Sentences

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James A. Fitzpatrick visits some of the famous locales in Scotland, from inverness to Loch Ness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2020

The bold checks he favored for jackets and the inverness Sherlock Holmes coats he often wore accented an epicurean life-style that would have fit grandly in the Edwardian era.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fumbling for the front door he found a hat, and, having lost his own, placed it upon his head, drew his inverness about his shoulders, and went quickly out.

From The Port of Missing Men by Nicholson, Meredith

With his hands thrust deep in the sack-like pockets of his inverness he drifted from treasure to treasure—uninvited, from room to room—like some rudderless craft.

From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Rohmer, Sax

I had run out for a walk with only an inverness over my dinner-jacket, and I was thoroughly chilled by the cold mist.

From The House of a Thousand Candles by Nicholson, Meredith