casaque

_ We see him much the same as he was when he delighted the Parisians in 1830, -- "_Avec sa grand casaque à gros boutons, son large pantalon flottant, ses souliers blancs comme le rests, son visage enfariné, sa tête couverte d'un serre-tête noir ... le véritable Pierrot avec sa bonhomie naïve ... ses joies d'enfant, et ses chagrins d'un effet si comique_" -- and also so pathetic.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 Various

In Belgium, Digna Robert, 1565, met 'un beau jeune homme vètu d'une casaque noire, qui était le diable, et se nommait Barrebon ....

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

She wore a casaque and toque of marron velvet, with a wreath of black and gold leaves low on her lovely fluffy hair.

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

Sometimes in an archaeological novel the use of strange and obsolete terms seems to hide the reality beneath the learning, and I dare say that many of the readers of Notre Dame de Paris have been much puzzled over the meaning of such expressions as la casaque a mahoitres, les voulgiers, le gallimard tache d'encre, les craaquiniers, and the like; but with the stage how different it is!

Intentions Oscar Wilde 1877

"How large your casaque is about the neck," said Joy, carelessly.

Gypsy Breynton Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1877

Bright carpets, and curtains, furniture, pictures, and ornaments covered the length of two parlors separated only by folding-doors, and mirrors, that reached from the floor to the ceiling, reflected her figure full length, as she stood in the midst of the magnificence, in her Yorkbury hat and homemade casaque.

Gypsy Breynton Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1877

Gypsy remembered what her mother said: and, because her casaque happened to be cut after Miss Jones's patterns instead of Madame Demorest's, she did not feel that her character was seriously affected; but it was not pleasant to have such things said.

Gypsy Breynton Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1877

It was pretty, and she knew it; it just matched her casaque, and her mother had thought it all the more lady-like for its simplicity.

Gypsy Breynton Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1877

* 'II vint tard d la comedie, & pour la punition de seg pechez, ii se pla9a derriere un gentil - homme k large eschine, et convert d* une grosse casaque qui grossissoit beiai* coup sa figure.

Illustrations of Sterne: with other essays and verses Ferriar, John, 1761-1815 1812