pelerine
Example Sentences
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Reasoning thus, and much better than this, she was very particular about her hat, and French pelerine of fluted lawn, and frock of pale violet trimmed on either side with gathered muslin.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
The nuns' repast was soon finished, and one came with a very agreeable, open countenance and fresh, brown complexion, well fed and happy-looking, becomingly dressed in snow-white hood and pelerine and brown gown.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Augustus J. C. Hare
A strange ornament, like a pelerine, is also suspended from the neck, formed by a thick pad of glossy steel-blue feathers, which grow on a long fleshy lobe or excrescence.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
The names "cardinal" and "capuchin" had been derived from monkish wear, and the cape, called a pelerine, had an allied derivation; it is said to be derived from pèlerin--meaning a pilgrim.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle
No demon of calculation comes between her and the genius of taste, when the milliner suggests an extra flounce of Marines, or a pelerine of Honiton.
From The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
