pelerine

Example Sentences

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He has a stiff spreading beard, running with water, and overlapping a sort of pelerine, ornamented with fourteen shells, seven before and seven behind.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor

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.

There was likewise a considerable demur about a canezou and a pelerine, but eventually the latter carried the day.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

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

Dresses were all of one piece then, and were made low with short baby sleeves, but a pelerine was made with the dress, which was really an over-waist with two little capes over the shoulders.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston