pelerine

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I wore my black velvet and point lace pelerine, with the diamond star he gave me after the Jutley election.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 by Various

Add a Dunstable straw bonnet with its strings of satin and the frilled pelerine, and this strange young woman might have just stepped from her carriage in the most fashionable avenue in the land.

From Viola Gwyn by McCutcheon, George Barr

Susan, at breakfast, her shoulders wrapped in a serious-toned pelerine, said little.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph

The lady wore a green silk pelerine, and a green bonnet with pink strings, and the gentleman a blue coat and bell hat.

From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

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)