pelerine

Example Sentences

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This pelerine is edged with two rows of fringe.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

Patsy held up a buff-coloured satin gown, pointing out with pride where he had filled up the deficiencies of a very low neck with the top of a green silk pelerine.

From The Weans at Rowallan by Fitzpatrick, Kathleen

Jack's ribald advice to buy a pelerine, and a green-loden Gemsjäger hat with a feather, stirred me neither to smiles nor anger, for Molly and I were already deep in exploration.

From The Princess Passes by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

She is clad in a loose dress of sombre colour, cut with a pelerine; and nothing but the one bright spot formed by the white collar reveals the severity of the costume.

From Bastien Lepage by Crastre, Fr.

She is dressed in winter walking costume: a large hat,—fur-trimmed pelerine, and a large muff.

From Pride and Predjudice, a play by Mackaye, Mary Keith Medbery