pelerine
Example Sentences
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With one of these dresses we saw a young lady wear a rich black satin pelerine, handsomely trimmed with a very beautiful black blond; it had a very neat effect, as the dress was light.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
"Yes—pretty enough," replied Augusta, scarcely turning her head to look at it.—"Mamma, do not you think I had better have my green pelerine cut in points rather than in scollops?"
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
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 Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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
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
