manteau

Example Sentences

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“This is not a manteau, Khanoumi. This is a shirt.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2016

A well-groomed woman, wearing a fashionable manteau and with a fully made-up face—perhaps she was the boy’s mother—whispered loudly from the line to him.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 26, 2016

My clients are the slightly more creative ones, not the standard pin stripe/porte manteau types.

From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2012

Il entre dans une petite salle et se couche sur un lit form� d'un m�chant matelas sur lequel on avait jet� un vieux manteau.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

The dress consisted of a black robe, with a mantle of the same colour, the whole being called manteau à bec, having upon the left side thereof a white cross in cloth, with light points.

From Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean by Currey, E. Hamilton