pelerine

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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 clad in a loose dress of sombre colour, cut with a pelerine; and nothing but the one bright spot formed by the white collar reveals the severity of the costume.

From Bastien Lepage by Crastre, Fr.

No demon of calculation comes between her and the genius of taste, when the milliner suggests an extra flounce of Marines, or a pelerine of Honiton.

From The Lovels of Arden by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

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

There was likewise a considerable demur about a canezou and a pelerine, but eventually the latter carried the day.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza