paletot
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Another walking dress consists of pelisse and paletot of Nankin cachmere, the former beautifully embroidered.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
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 F. (Frank) Brinkley
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
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
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
