pelerine

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The lady wore a green silk pelerine, and a green bonnet with pink strings, and the gentleman a blue coat and bell hat.

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  1. noun A woman's cape, usually short, with points in front.

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  • Dust off your whalebone bodice and prettiest pelerine and come listen to —  The New York Observer -
  • The lady wore a green silk pelerine, and a green bonnet with pink strings, and the gentleman a blue coat and bell hat. —  Young Lucretia and Other Stories
  • 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 A trip to London, and a fortnight or so spent in West-end shops, would have been very agreeable to Mrs. Oliver; but on mature reflection she convinced herself that to purchase her niece's trosseau in London would be a foolish waste of power. —  The Lovels of Arden
  • 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 Zachariah, lacking his master's good manners, gazed in open-mouthed wonder at the lady, forgetting for the moment his fear of the tempest's wrath. —  Viola Gwyn
  • Even the brooch which fastened her lace pelerine was of plain gold only. —  The Black Robe
 

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  1. French pèlerine, from feminine of pèlerin, pilgrim, from Late Latin pelegrīnus; see pilgrim.

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  1. from French pèlerine, a tippet, from pèlerin, a pilgrim: see pilgrim.
 

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/ˈpɛlərɪn/
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