pelerine

Example Sentences

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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

This pelerine is edged with two rows of fringe.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

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

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

She was next informed that she could not be presentable without a French pelerine of embroidered muslin.

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