paletot

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He started up from the table, calling for his furred paletot, and gave orders that his sleigh and horses should be brought round.

From Mabel's Mistake by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

He was smoking as he walked; his light paletot, which was open, did not conceal his evening clothes; and he bore himself with a serious grace that immediately awakened my attention.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He wore a yellow straw-hat, and a yellowish-gray summer paletot, with yellowish-brown linen trousers.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

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

This fullness is owing to its being cut in a style like the paletot.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)