paletot

Definitions

1. A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.
   historical
2. Alternative spelling of paletot.
   alt-of, alternative
3. A women’s fitted jacket.

Equivalents

Examples

“[W]hen his services were not required at the House, in his usual favourite costume, namely, his light⟳ green frock or paletot …”

“For morning fetes is worn with this dress a small white muslin paletot, without sleeves, split⟳ up the back, trimmed with two gauffred frills, edged with Valenciennes, and a narrow puffing, lined with satin ribbon.”

“Kit caught sight of Dally in the Principessa’s borrowed gown and a dark silk paletot, her incendiary hair done up in an ostrich-plume aigrette dyed indigo”

“I need⟳ scarcely say⟳, this paletôt added much to the elegance of her appearance, or, that these interchanges of attractive civility had great effect in cementing our family acquaintance.”

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