paletot
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈpalɪtəʊ/
paletot (plural paletots)
- (historical) A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.
- A women’s fitted jacket.
- 1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature (page 93)
- 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.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 833:
- 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
- 1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature (page 93)
- French: paletot
- German: Mantel, Paletot, Überrock, Überzieher
- Italian: paltò
- Portuguese: casacão, paletó, sobretudo
- Russian: пальто́
- Spanish: gabán, paletó, sobretodo, abrigo
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