Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A loose outer garment for a man or a woman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An overcoat.
- noun A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A loose outer jacket,
cloak ,coat ,overcoat ,greatcoat , three-quarter coat. - noun A women’s fitted
jacket .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mirobolant strides about town of a summer afternoon, in outlandish attire reminiscent of Soyer's: his light green frock or paletot, his crimson velvet waistcoat with blue glass buttons, his pantalon
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Every time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned up his frock-coat, — the paletot had not yet been invented, — and took hygienic precautions.
Les Miserables 2008
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But the father pulled back one of the little men by his paletot, gave a grim scowl, and walked away.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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“Capting;” now he is offering a paletot to a huge giant who is going out in the rain.
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At this juncture Miss Clarissa Newboy enters in a pink paletot, trimmed with swansdown — looking like an angel — and we exchange glances of — what shall I say? — of sympathy on both parts, and consummate rapture on mine.
Our Street 2006
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Huxter arose with great perturbation at this news, and plunged his stick into the pocket of his paletot, and seized his hat.
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He was dressed in a bright Italian dressing-gown, or woollen paletot — Italian, as having been bought in Italy, though, doubtless, it had come from France — and on his feet he had green worked slippers, and on his head a brocaded cap.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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He saw the captain take from the pocket of his paletot a square box or packet, it might be jewels or only papers, and hand them to his companion, who popped them into his left-hand surtout pocket, and kept his hand there as if the freightage were specially valuable.
Wylder's Hand 2003
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So she led him in by the arm to her tiny drawing-room; and he laid his hat and stick, and gray paletot, on her little marquetrie-table, and sat down, and looked languidly about him, with a sly smile, like a man amused.
Wylder's Hand 2003
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Captain Lake put it in his paletot pocket, looked in her face gently, and smiled, and thanked her in his graceful way — and, in fact, left an enduring impression upon that impressible nature.
Wylder's Hand 2003
knitandpurl commented on the word paletot
"She was around fifty, garishly painted and dressed in the faded style of a older generation, in a worn silk paletot."
The Thing about Thugs by Tabish Khair, p 195
December 24, 2012