pelisse

• Over it was tied a plain white linen apron--aprons were then worn both in and out of doors--and Phoebe's walking costume consisted of a worn black mantua or pelisse, and a hood, brown like the dress, which was the shabbiest of all. —  The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)
• Over her vest she wore the Syrian jacket, made of cherry-coloured velvet, its open arms and back richly embroidered, though these were now much concealed by her outer pelisse, a brocade of India, massy with gold, and yet relieved from heaviness by the brilliancy of its light blue tint and the dazzling fantasy of its pattern. —  Tancred Or, The New Crusade
• Thy pelisse, too, over our old happy shoulders, purple as the neck of the dove when careering round his mate. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• Many men, however, and nearly all the women, wear the kaross_, a kind of pelisse of skins sewn together, which is used at night as a wrap. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• A nice little black silk pelisse was hung on the stand opposite me; it was nice; a good gloss was upon the silk, the article was in the neatest style, and trimmed with great simplicity. —  Daisy

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