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.

That manteau pins her arms to her sides," interrupted the minister calmly, "and the lace is dirty.

From Audrey by Johnston, Mary