pelerine

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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

Miriam had discarded her little fur pelerine and her double-breasted jacket bulged loosely over the thin fabric of her blouse.

From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller

The corsage low and plain, with a pelerine which passes along the back and shoulders, and is brought down to the front of the waist in a point.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

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 Earle, Alice Morse

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

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph