pelerine
Example Sentences
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Add a Dunstable straw bonnet with its strings of satin and the frilled pelerine, and this strange young woman might have just stepped from her carriage in the most fashionable avenue in the land.
From Viola Gwyn by George Barr McCutcheon
Jack's ribald advice to buy a pelerine, and a green-loden Gemsjäger hat with a feather, stirred me neither to smiles nor anger, for Molly and I were already deep in exploration.
From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
The names "cardinal" and "capuchin" had been derived from monkish wear, and the cape, called a pelerine, had an allied derivation; it is said to be derived from pèlerin--meaning a pilgrim.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle
Susan, at breakfast, her shoulders wrapped in a serious-toned pelerine, said little.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
"Yes—pretty enough," replied Augusta, scarcely turning her head to look at it.—"Mamma, do not you think I had better have my green pelerine cut in points rather than in scollops?"
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
