paletot

Example Sentences

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Then the maid wears a wideawake and a paletot.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James

The sleeves of the paletot were studiously regulated.

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

It is hollowed out at the side and back seams, like a lady's paletot, tight over the breast, and fastened with little jet buttons.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

Play Macbeth in a paletot, perform Othello in "pegtops," and see what effect you will produce!

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

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 Reid, Mayne