paletot

Example Sentences

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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)

A man in a hazel-coloured paletot was walking on the edge of the footpath.

From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Flaubert, Gustave

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

It was the heavenly fashion then to wear a long, light, loose paletot of China silk—the early dust-coat, before it had been spoiled.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada

Broadly speaking, the principal garments were a paletot, trousers, and a narrow girdle tied in front.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)