paletot

Example Sentences

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She wore a puce silk paletot, and a brown hat trimmed with black lace; an unbecoming costume for one so tall.

From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry

Then the maid wears a wideawake and a paletot.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James

Mr. Leech represented the other day certain delicate creatures with bewitching countenances encased in several varieties of that amazing garment, the ladies' paletot.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John

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

The sleeves of the paletot were studiously regulated.

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