pelerine

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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

The fall of every curl had she studied well that morning, and the folds of the muslin pelerine over her shoulders.

From Madelon A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

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 Bates, Henry Walter

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