paletot

Example Sentences

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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 Forster, John

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

And yet I sewed a black spider into your paletot with his web; a velvety fellow he was!

From Germinie Lacerteux by Goncourt, Jules de

The manner of folding the paletot over the breast seems to have perplexed the legislators for a time.

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

Then the maid wears a wideawake and a paletot.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James