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paletot
UK /ˈpalɪtəʊ/ US /ˈpæləˌtoʊ/
noun 2
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3ADJ.
dark, green, small, white
PALETOT + NOUN
hair, incendiary, sleeves
PREP.
without
Definitions
noun
1
A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.
[W]hen his services were not required at the House, in his usual favourite costume, namely, his light green frock or paletot …
2
A women’s fitted jacket.
For morning fetes is worn with this dress a small white muslin paletot, without sleeves, split up the back, trimmed with two gauffred frills, edged with Valenciennes, and a narrow puffing, lined with satin ribbon.
Kit caught sight of Dally in the Principessa’s borrowed gown and a dark silk paletot, her incendiary hair done up in an ostrich-plume aigrette dyed indigo
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[W]hen his services were not required at the House, in his usual favourite costume, namely, his light green frock or paletot …
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For morning fetes is worn with this dress a small white muslin paletot, without sleeves, split up the back, trimmed with two gauffred frills, edged with Valenciennes, and a narrow puffing, lined with
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Kit caught sight of Dally in the Principessa’s borrowed gown and a dark silk paletot, her incendiary hair done up in an ostrich-plume aigrette dyed indigo
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