paletot
Americannoun
noun
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a loose outer garment
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a woman's fitted coat often worn over a crinoline or bustle
Etymology
Origin of paletot
1830–40; < French, Middle French, variant of paletoc < Middle English paltok a jacket, peasant's coat
Example Sentences
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He looked as if he had been out in the rain all night without a paletot.
From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
The manner of folding the paletot over the breast seems to have perplexed the legislators for a time.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
And the colonel rejoined, "Tiens! not entirely a strong-minded female yet, I see," and as he spoke he helped her take off her long brown paletot.
From Erlach Court by Schubin, Ossip
Mr. Leech represented the other day certain delicate creatures with bewitching countenances encased in several varieties of that amazing garment, the ladies' paletot.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
A man in a hazel-coloured paletot was walking on the edge of the footpath.
From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Flaubert, Gustave
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