paletot
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Mayne Reid
He started up from the table, calling for his furred paletot, and gave orders that his sleigh and horses should be brought round.
From Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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 Paul Heyse
