pelisse

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The soldier wears a fur pelisse and holds a cymbal, which meant he was very likely to have belonged to a cavalry regiment, Ms Lavelle said.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025

A photograph from that time shows him proudly wearing his uniform, with its heavily tasselled pelisse, mostly unchanged since the Napoleonic Wars, and later favored by Jimi Hendrix.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

The lure of the bygone is represented at the start, where Thomas Cole’s 1838 painting “The Past” is paired with an 1820s golden silk pelisse, or coatdress.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2016

The pelisse illustrates how Romantic-era styles incorporated elements drawn not only from the medieval period but from five centuries of European fashion.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2016

I will wear a long pelisse and a veil.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de