Meaning of paletot | Babel Free

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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