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

Anyhow, the new "manteau de sûreté" is absolutely booming, and entre nous, chérie, people who never wear anything more valuable than sequins and paste are quite falling over each other to get thief-proof wraps!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

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