paletot

Example Sentences

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And, taking a cigar from his case, he lighted it from Guilmard's, as, with hands in his paletot, he sat negligently on the wall, surveying the scene below him.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

A man in a hazel-coloured paletot was walking on the edge of the footpath.

From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Flaubert, Gustave

He took up his paletot from the chair onto which he had thrown it on his entrance, and threw it over his shoulder.

From In Direst Peril by Murray, David Christie

He wore a yellow straw-hat, and a yellowish-gray summer paletot, with yellowish-brown linen trousers.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

With this great symbol, we have adopted others—the hat, the cigar, the paletot or round jacket.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various