paletot
Example Sentences
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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 Various (magazine) Harper
In reality he is a gracefully formed, remarkably fast, sociable, warm-hearted, or rather warm-blooded fellow, with a coat of fat like a paletot on his back, to keep out the chill of the icy seas.
From My First Voyage to Southern Seas by Alfred Pearse
Miss Lees is less nautically attired; having but slipped over her morning dress a paletot of the ordinary kind, and on her head a plumed hat of the Neapolitan pattern.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
She wore a brown silk gown, which had the colour of Spanish wine, with a paletot of black velvet bordered with sable.
From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Gustave Flaubert
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 Charles James Lever
