paletot

• I have already said that the director wore a paletot, with large pockets, so, profiting by the art by which I had so cleverly emptied Comte's pockets some time before, I found out what he had in them, and my son consequently learned it from me. —  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
• In reality he is a gracefully formed, remarkably fast, sociable, warm-hearted, or rather warm-blooded fellow, with a coat of fat like a paletot on his back, to keep out the chill of the icy seas. —  My First Voyage to Southern Seas
• He decorates himself in his light-coloured paletot, blue neck-tie, and last dickey--drives to Regent Street to purchase cigars--to an oyster-shop redolent of saw-dust and lobsters--rigs a very light pair of kids--drives to, and alarms by his fast appearance, a few of his friends, who forthwith write off long woolly letters to relations in the country. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852
• It is scarce three weeks ago I was ordering a waistcoat of my tailor, when two gentlemen entered the shop, and one of them in broken English gave an order for a paletot; I looked up, It was Ledru Rollin and Etienne Arago; when they had gone, the worthy tradesman, knowing I had lived much in Paris, asked me if I knew his customer (M. Arago,) and if he could safely give him credit! —  International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
• 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

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