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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It was the heavenly fashion then to wear a long, light, loose paletot of China silk—the early dust-coat, before it had been spoiled.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada
Then the maid wears a wideawake and a paletot.
From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James
She wore a puce silk paletot, and a brown hat trimmed with black lace; an unbecoming costume for one so tall.
From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry
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 Neopolitan pattern.
From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne
He was smoking as he walked; his light paletot, which was open, did not conceal his evening clothes; and he bore himself with a serious grace that immediately awakened my attention.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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