pelerine

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Her shoulders were covered with a fringed pelerine, which had nothing at all remarkable about it, but which she wore as if it were a sacerdotal vestment, or the symbol of some high civic function.

From The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by France, Anatole

He has a stiff spreading beard, running with water, and overlapping a sort of pelerine, ornamented with fourteen shells, seven before and seven behind.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor

In the quotation heading this chapter, manteel, pelerine, and neckatee precede the capuchin; but in fact the capuchin is as old as the pelerine.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse

Patsy held up a buff-coloured satin gown, pointing out with pride where he had filled up the deficiencies of a very low neck with the top of a green silk pelerine.

From The Weans at Rowallan by Fitzpatrick, Kathleen

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 McCutcheon, George Barr