paletot
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Short velvet cloaks, of the paletot shape, half tight, trimmed with lace, embroidered entirely in satin stitch, and with narrow braiding, are also worn.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 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 Schubin, Ossip
With this great symbol, we have adopted others—the hat, the cigar, the paletot or round jacket.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
He was smoking as he walked; his light paletot, which was open, did not conceal his evening clothes; and he bore himself with a serious grace that immediately awakened my attention.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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