paletot

Example Sentences

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He looked as if he had been out in the rain all night without a paletot.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

She wore a brown silk gown, which had the colour of Spanish wine, with a paletot of black velvet bordered with sable.

From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Flaubert, Gustave

What does this mean? twelve francs for a superb silk-lined paletot, with a velvet collar!

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de

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)

The queen's shawl, or the king's paletot, were never so well carried as by Baum.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold