pelerine
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The fall of every curl had she studied well that morning, and the folds of the muslin pelerine over her shoulders.
From Madelon A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Would you like me to add the pelerine you were admiring?
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
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 Victor Hugo
"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 names "cardinal" and "capuchin" had been derived from monkish wear, and the cape, called a pelerine, had an allied derivation; it is said to be derived from pèlerin--meaning a pilgrim.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle
