paletot

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If the paletot and the wrapper wish to prove any claims to gentle birth, they cannot do better than refer their wearers to the father of English poets.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

Broadly speaking, the principal garments were a paletot, trousers, and a narrow girdle tied in front.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

And, taking a cigar from his case, he lighted it from Guilmard's, as, with hands in his paletot, he sat negligently on the wall, surveying the scene below him.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

Short velvet cloaks, of the paletot shape, half tight, trimmed with lace, embroidered entirely in satin stitch, and with narrow braiding, are also worn.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various

This fullness is owing to its being cut in a style like the paletot.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)