manteaus

The typical look around town consists of perfect makeup (spread over exquisitely straight noses; cosmetic surgery is a huge business here), faded jeans under form-fitting Islamic "manteaus" — a sort of truncated raincoat that comes to mid-thigh — and colorful silk higabs loosely arrayed over the backs of their heads.

Dispatch From Iran 2007

To name the various articles by their appropriate names, would be to attempt things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme; besides that the old-fashioned terms of manteaus, sacques, kissing-strings, and so forth, would convey but little information even to the milliners of the present day.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

When we had recreated ourselves a good while at this diversion, the ladies spread their manteaus on the ground, upon which they emptied their knapsacks of some onions, coarse bread, and a few flasks of poor wine: being invited to a share of the banquet, I sat down with the rest, and, in the whole course of my life, never made a more comfortable meal.

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

The difference of the dress here and at London is so great, the same sort of things are not proper for caftans and manteaus.

Selected English Letters Various 1913

English terrier, a Dongola cat, with innumeral satchels and port-manteaus, and seven people -- Mr. and Mrs. Rossiter-Browne, Augusta

Bessie's Fortune A Novel Mary Jane Holmes 1866

To name the various articles by their appropriate names, would be to attempt things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme; besides that the old-fashioned terms of manteaus, sacques, kissing-strings, and so forth, would convey but little information even to the milliners of the present day.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

To name the various articles by their appropriate names, would be to attempt things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme; besides that the old-fashioned terms of manteaus, sacques, kissing-strings, and so forth, would convey but little information even to the milliners of the present day.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

When we had recreated ourselves a good while at this diversion, the ladies spread their manteaus on the ground, upon which they emptied their knapsacks of some onions, coarse bread, and a few flasks of poor wine: being invited to a share of the banquet, I sat down with the rest, and, in the whole course of my life, never made a more comfortable meal.

The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1746

The difference of the dress here and at London is so great, the same sort of things are not proper for caftans and manteaus.

Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e Montague, Lady Mary W 1724

_ The stores are very low, sir: Some dolly petticoats, and manteaus we have; and half a dozen pair of laced shoes, bought from court at second hand.

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665