pelerine
Example Sentences
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Would you like me to add the pelerine you were admiring?
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
She was next informed that she could not be presentable without a French pelerine of embroidered muslin.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
Though long ends are very much in favour with silk pelerines, yet there are quite as many that are quite round; such was the black satin pelerine we cited above.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
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 Fr. Crastre
She wore ruffled lavender with a clear lace pelerine caught at her breast by a knot of straw-coloured ribbon and sprig of rose geranium.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
