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

Dès l'aube du lundi 6 mai 1527, le connétable, à cheval, la cuirasse couverte d'un manteau blanc, marcha vers le Borgo, dont les murailles, à la hauteur de San-Spirito, étaient d'accès facile....

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

It was a light-blue gown and petticoat of rich satin, sprigged with silver, and a manteau of dark-blue velvet trimmed with bands of delicate fur.

From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Hampe, Theo.