paletot

Example Sentences

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Miss Lees is less nautically attired; having but slipped over her morning dress a paletot of the ordinary kind, and on her head a plumed hat of the Neopolitan pattern.

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne

The sleeves of the paletot were studiously regulated.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

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

Instantly he stripped the garment from his shoulders, like a paletot, saw it dissolve in thin air, and glided unimpeded through the door and across the court.

From At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas by Heyse, Paul

Broadly speaking, the principal garments were a paletot, trousers, and a narrow girdle tied in front.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)