pelerine

Example Sentences

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Your travelling-dress for summer should have a large cape or pelerine of the same.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza

Dresses were all of one piece then, and were made low with short baby sleeves, but a pelerine was made with the dress, which was really an over-waist with two little capes over the shoulders.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

She is dressed in winter walking costume: a large hat,—fur-trimmed pelerine, and a large muff.

From Pride and Predjudice, a play by Mackaye, Mary Keith Medbery

A large pelerine cape is made to take on and off; and the bust from the back of each shoulder is ornamented with the same bias folds, forming a stomacher in front of the waist.

From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton

He noticed that her dress was indeed plainer, and yet she seemed quite concerned over the water-soaked state of that cheap thin silk pelerine and merino skirt.

From Trent's Trust, and Other Stories by Harte, Bret