pelerine
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pelerine
1735–45; < French pèlerine, feminine of pèlerin pilgrim
Example Sentences
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Add a Dunstable straw bonnet with its strings of satin and the frilled pelerine, and this strange young woman might have just stepped from her carriage in the most fashionable avenue in the land.
From Viola Gwyn by McCutcheon, George Barr
No demon of calculation comes between her and the genius of taste, when the milliner suggests an extra flounce of Marines, or a pelerine of Honiton.
From The Lovels of Arden by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Your travelling-dress for summer should have a large cape or pelerine of the same.
From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza
The corsage low and plain, with a pelerine which passes along the back and shoulders, and is brought down to the front of the waist in a point.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
Susan, at breakfast, her shoulders wrapped in a serious-toned pelerine, said little.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph
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