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The women of the lower classes in Provence -- the peasantry and workpeople -- still wear these ample cloaks, which are called pelisses; it is a fashion which must have lasted for ages.
The Fortune of the Rougons ��mile Zola 1871
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One day, as I sat in my shop, with two fur pelisses on me, one of sable and the other of meniver,493 for it was the season of winter and the time of the excessive cold, behold, there came up to me my two brothers, each clad in a ragged shirt and nothing more, and their lips were white with cold, and they were shivering.
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Now they've come out, through David Chou, who's their new designer, with what I call a more aesthetically pleasing design, going back a bit more toward luxury, more leather on the pelisses.
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Commander-inchief of all these busbys, pelisses, and aiguillettes, which so fascinated the fair sex.
Domestic Peace 2007
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Commander-inchief of all these busbys, pelisses, and aiguillettes, which so fascinated the fair sex.
Domestic Peace 2007
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She ran upstairs, the dogs prancing ahead of her and was back in a few minutes with an armful of pelisses and shawls.
A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007
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She ran upstairs, the dogs prancing ahead of her and was back in a few minutes with an armful of pelisses and shawls.
A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007
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French gray jackets, leathers, red morocco boots, crimson pelisses, brass helmets with leopard-skin and a white plume, and the regulation pig-tail of eighteen inches.
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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A stout lady, with fair hair and a fine bonnet and pelisse (who knows what were the fine bonnets and pelisses of the year 183 -?), was reclining in the barouche, the scarlet-plush integuments of her domestics blazing before and behind her.
The Newcomes 2006
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French gray jackets, leathers, red morocco boots, crimson pelisses, brass helmets with leopard-skin and a white plume, and the regulation pig-tail of eighteen inches.
Burlesques 2006
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