pelerines

"pelerines" of muslin were to be found in the hands of all women of high or low degree.

The Development of Embroidery in America Candace Wheeler 1875

The ladies, wearing bonnets, had on dresses in the town fashion, gold watch chains, pelerines with the ends tucked into belts, or little coloured fichus fastened down behind with a pin, and that left the back of the neck bare.

Madame Bovary 2003

Women passed, foreshortened into circular bells of colour, draped with gay pelerines and rich India shawls.

The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

The ladies, wearing bonnets, had on dresses in the town fashion, gold watch chains, pelerines with the ends tucked into belts, or little coloured fichus fastened down behind with a pin, and that left the back of the neck bare.

Madame Bovary 1902

The government uniforms made way for white pelerines.

The Schoolmaster Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

Third came merchants, some in wigs, all in long tunics and pelerines.

The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879

Beautiful embroidery it was that was lavished upon muslin gowns, baby's caps and long, long robes, and upon aprons, pelerines and capes.

The Development of Embroidery in America Candace Wheeler 1875

Small articles, like collars, capes and pelerines, were almost entirely covered with the most exquisite tracery of leaf and flower, a perfect frostwork of delicate stitchery, with patches of lacework introduced in spaces of the design.

The Development of Embroidery in America Candace Wheeler 1875

There were satin bags covered with the most delicate stitchery, and black silk aprons with wreaths of myrtle done with silks or flosses, and, finally, satin pelerines exquisitely embroidered in designs of carefully shaded roses.

The Development of Embroidery in America Candace Wheeler 1875

Corrie, of course, never dreamt of offering poor Chrissy a loan of any of those worked pelerines or aprons, which would have fitted either equally well.

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870