pelerine

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A large pelerine cape is made to take on and off; and the bust from the back of each shoulder is ornamented with the same bias folds, forming a stomacher in front of the waist.

From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton

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 Harte, Bret

Reasoning thus, and much better than this, she was very particular about her hat, and French pelerine of fluted lawn, and frock of pale violet trimmed on either side with gathered muslin.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

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

Her shoulders were covered with a fringed pelerine, which had nothing at all remarkable about it, but which she wore as if it were a sacerdotal vestment, or the symbol of some high civic function.

From The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by France, Anatole