pelerine

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Would you like me to add the pelerine you were admiring?

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

Though long ends are very much in favour with silk pelerines, yet there are quite as many that are quite round; such was the black satin pelerine we cited above.

From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton

A strange ornament, like a pelerine, is also suspended from the neck, formed by a thick pad of glossy steel-blue feathers, which grow on a long fleshy lobe or excrescence.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter

The soutanelle is made of silk, and lined with a different color; it has a hood, the inside of which is like the lining; it forms a pelerine, and ends square in front.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)

Her dress is a plain brown frock, with a woollen pelerine of black and aniline mauve over her shoulders, all very trim in honor of the occasion.

From John Bull's Other Island by Shaw, Bernard