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

Rollon est v�tu d'une longue tunique, par-dessus laquelle est un manteau couleur de pourpre, ou esp�ce de chlamyde attach�e � l'�paule droite; il porte sur sa t�te une couronne.

From Architectural Antiquities of Normandy by Cotman, John Sell

In front, this kind of outer dress, called manteau de cour, was open, and trimmed all round with broad lace.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various