pelerine
Example Sentences
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She wore ruffled lavender with a clear lace pelerine caught at her breast by a knot of straw-coloured ribbon and sprig of rose geranium.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
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
Patsy held up a buff-coloured satin gown, pointing out with pride where he had filled up the deficiencies of a very low neck with the top of a green silk pelerine.
From The Weans at Rowallan by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
She is dressed in winter walking costume: a large hat,—fur-trimmed pelerine, and a large muff.
From Pride and Predjudice, a play by Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye
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 Henry Walter Bates
