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- noun Plural form of
roquelaure .
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Examples
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Both men and women wore for many years great cloaks or capes, known by various names, such as roquelaures, capuchins, pelisses, etc. Women's shoes were of very thin materials, and paper-soled.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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The word spoken rouses all Patriot men: General Dumouriez, enveloped in roquelaures, has to descend from his bedroom; finds the street covered with 'four or five thousand citizens in their shirts.'
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Leaving the Arsenal, I crossed the court, and perceived I was closely followed by two men in grey roquelaures, who, pressing upon my heels, held loud and insolent conversation concerning the runaway Prussian
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1 Friedrich Trenck 1760
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