opera cloak


noun
  1. a large cloak worn over evening clothes: Also called: opera hood

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How to use opera cloak in a sentence

  • The Opera—Here you should wear full dress, an opera cloak, and either a head-dress, or dressy bonnet of some thin material.

  • Then they turned the corner and found Lady Victoria, an opera-cloak thrown over her night-clothes, pacing up and down the veranda.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • A few of the men were still in pyjamas, and of the women in dressing-gown or opera-cloak, caught up as they fled.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • The hand which had kept together her opera-cloak relinquished its grasp, and it fell back upon her shoulders.

    The New Tenant | E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • I had bought her a pink and white opera cloak, a pretty little fan, a pair of white kid gloves, and a bouquet.

    In the Days of My Youth | Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards