manteau

Example Sentences

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“This is not a manteau, Khanoumi. This is a shirt.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2016

A well-groomed woman, wearing a fashionable manteau and with a fully made-up face—perhaps she was the boy’s mother—whispered loudly from the line to him.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 26, 2016

My clients are the slightly more creative ones, not the standard pin stripe/porte manteau types.

From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2012

Le temps a laissi� son manteau De vent, de froidure et de pluye, Et s'est vestu de brouderie, De soleil luyant, cler et beau.

From Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance by Belloc, Hilaire

Une teste de cerf avec la ramure, estant au milieu du manteau de la chemyn�e, � ung cruxifis en chief.

From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Tremayne, Eleanor E.