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Pelisse

noun

A sleeveless cape that is lined or trimmed with fur.

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"Pelisse" Quotes from Famous Books

... all-glorious, of course. She certainly looked like an old vulture, in a pelisse of gray velvet, with a chinchilla boa round her long, bare neck, and her big beak, with marabouts overshadowing it, of the same color. Monsieur de Talbrun —well! Monsieur de Talbrun was very bald, as bald as he could be. To make up for the want of hair on his head, ...

— Jacqueline, v2 • Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc)

... is a mourning costume of silk, with four rows of heavily-knotted fringe upon the skirt, and the sleeves trimmed to correspond. The figures of the children are simple and easily understood. The pelisse of the little girl has an edge to correspond with ...

— Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 • Various

... fair; her rich, black, velvet pelisse, setting off to great advantage the dazzling whiteness of her skin, and the rich colouring of her ...

— The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I • Susanna Moodie

... the Baron of Attinghausen. A Gothic Hall, decorated with escutcheons and helmets. The Baron, a grey-headed man, eighty- five years old, tall and of a commanding mien, clad in a furred pelisse, and leaning on a staff tipped with chamois horn. Kuoni and six hinds standing round him with rakes and scythes. Ulrich of Rudenz enters in the ...

— Wilhelm Tell - Title: William Tell • Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Words linked to "Pelisse" : cape, mantle