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 wore a yellow straw-hat, and a yellowish-gray summer paletot, with yellowish-brown linen trousers.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
It is hollowed out at the side and back seams, like a lady's paletot, tight over the breast, and fastened with little jet buttons.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
A man in a hazel-coloured paletot was walking on the edge of the footpath.
From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Flaubert, Gustave
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)
Miss Lees is less nautically attired; having but slipped over her morning dress a paletot of the ordinary kind, and on her head a plumed hat of the Neapolitan pattern.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne
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