pelerine
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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 Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
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.
Her shoulders were covered with a fringed pelerine, which had nothing at all remarkable about it, but which she wore as if it were a sacerdotal vestment, or the symbol of some high civic function.
From The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by France, Anatole
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 Hare, Augustus J. C.
This pelerine is edged with two rows of fringe.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
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