paletot

Example Sentences

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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

A man in a hazel-coloured paletot was walking on the edge of the footpath.

From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Flaubert, Gustave

"Come, let us begone at once," he said, folding his paletot closely, and drawing her arm through his.

From Mabel's Mistake by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

It was the heavenly fashion then to wear a long, light, loose paletot of China silk—the early dust-coat, before it had been spoiled.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada

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