paletot
Example Sentences
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I wore a gray felt hat, a travelling paletot, and Hessian boots, such as were then the fashion in California.
From A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas by Fanny Loviot
When the loose sack or paletot takes the place of his brocade blouse, it is worn with a refinement and grace that might bring a jealous pang to the exquisite of our more refined civilization.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Henry Cabot Lodge
And, taking a cigar from his case, he lighted it from Guilmard's, as, with hands in his paletot, he sat negligently on the wall, surveying the scene below him.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
The queen's shawl, or the king's paletot, were never so well carried as by Baum.
From On the Heights A Novel by Berthold Auerbach
It is hollowed out at the side and back seams, like a lady's paletot, tight over the breast, and fastened with little jet buttons.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
