pelerine
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He noticed that her dress was indeed plainer, and yet she seemed quite concerned over the water-soaked state of that cheap thin silk pelerine and merino skirt.
From Trent's Trust, and Other Stories by Bret Harte
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 Dorothy Miller Richardson
She wore ruffled lavender with a clear lace pelerine caught at her breast by a knot of straw-coloured ribbon and sprig of rose geranium.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
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 George Barr McCutcheon
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 Augustus J. C. Hare
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