pelerine
Example Sentences
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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
There was likewise a considerable demur about a canezou and a pelerine, but eventually the latter carried the day.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
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 Anatole France
The lady wore a green silk pelerine, and a green bonnet with pink strings, and the gentleman a blue coat and bell hat.
From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Dresses were all of one piece then, and were made low with short baby sleeves, but a pelerine was made with the dress, which was really an over-waist with two little capes over the shoulders.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
