paletot
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Mr. Leech represented the other day certain delicate creatures with bewitching countenances encased in several varieties of that amazing garment, the ladies' paletot.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster
And the colonel rejoined, "Tiens! not entirely a strong-minded female yet, I see," and as he spoke he helped her take off her long brown paletot.
From Erlach Court by Ossip Schubin
It is hollowed out at the side and back seams, like a lady's paletot, tight over the breast, and fastened with little jet buttons.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
What does this mean? twelve francs for a superb silk-lined paletot, with a velvet collar!
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
If the paletot and the wrapper wish to prove any claims to gentle birth, they cannot do better than refer their wearers to the father of English poets.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
