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

Partout l'orgueil, partout le moi, sous la haire du Trappiste, comme sous le manteau du cynique.

From Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

Il n'y a beste, ne oyseau, Qu'en son jargon ne chant ou crie; Le temps a laissi� son manteau De vent de froidure et de pluye.

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