paletot

• “Mirobolant strides about town of a summer afternoon, in outlandish attire reminiscent of Soyer's: his light green frock or paletot, his crimson velvet waistcoat with blue glass buttons, his pantalon”

  Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef

• “Every time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned up his frock-coat, — the paletot had not yet been invented, — and took hygienic precautions.”

  Les Miserables

• “Huxter arose with great perturbation at this news, and plunged his stick into the pocket of his paletot, and seized his hat.”

  The History of Pendennis

• “But the father pulled back one of the little men by his paletot, gave a grim scowl, and walked away.”

  Roundabout Papers

• ““Capting;” now he is offering a paletot to a huge giant who is going out in the rain.”

  John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character

• “At this juncture Miss Clarissa Newboy enters in a pink paletot, trimmed with swansdown — looking like an angel — and we exchange glances of — what shall I say? — of sympathy on both parts, and consummate rapture on mine.”

  Our Street

• “He was dressed in a bright Italian dressing-gown, or woollen paletot — Italian, as having been bought in Italy, though, doubtless, it had come from France — and on his feet he had green worked slippers, and on his head a brocaded cap.”

  He Knew He Was Right

• “He saw the captain take from the pocket of his paletot a square box or packet, it might be jewels or only papers, and hand them to his companion, who popped them into his left-hand surtout pocket, and kept his hand there as if the freightage were specially valuable.”

  Wylder's Hand

• “So she led him in by the arm to her tiny drawing-room; and he laid his hat and stick, and gray paletot, on her little marquetrie-table, and sat down, and looked languidly about him, with a sly smile, like a man amused.”

  Wylder's Hand

• “Captain Lake put it in his paletot pocket, looked in her face gently, and smiled, and thanked her in his graceful way — and, in fact, left an enduring impression upon that impressible nature.”

  Wylder's Hand

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