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 n'y a beste, ne oyseau, Qu'en son jargon ne chante ou crie: Le temps a laissie son manteau De vent, de froidure et de pluye.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

The ruined château is approached by an ivy-covered gateway, through an avenue of beeches:— “Le lierre flottant comme un manteau de deuil, Couvre à demi la porte et rampe sur le seuil.”

From Brittany & Its Byways by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.