paletot
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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
This fullness is owing to its being cut in a style like the paletot.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)
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 Reid, Mayne
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
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)