Pelerine

In addition to this umbrella-like ornament on its head, it has what may be called a pelerine suspended from the neck, formed by a thick fan of glossy steel-blue feathers which grow on a long fleshy lobe or excrescence. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Scrubby coat and trousers, dirty shirt, scarf, and cap, socks more like anklets for holes, and a pair of split boots; bedraggled hat, frowsy jacket, blouse and skirt, squashy boots, and perhaps a patchy "pelerine" or mangy "boa" -- such is accepted as the natural costume for the heirs of all the ages. ❋ Henry W. Nevinson (1900)

For Isobel it was a chance to be someone she was not—to take her place among the theater ladies in their pelerine capelets and laced bodices. ❋ Dominic Smith (2006)

The pelerine, edged with the same ribbon run through a broad hem and tied with bows like those on the dress, showed the great beauty of her shape. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Reasoning thus, and much better than this, she was very particular about her hat, and French pelerine of fluted lawn, and frock of pale violet trimmed on either side with gathered muslin. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Well, we looked funny, no doubt, Bella in a Russian pony automobile coat over the black satin she had worn at the Clevelands 'dinner, and I in cream lace, the skirt gathered up from the kitchen floor, with Bella's ermine pelerine around my bare shoulders, and dishes and overturned chairs everywhere. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)

She wore ruffled lavender with a clear lace pelerine caught at her breast by a knot of straw-coloured ribbon and sprig of rose geranium. ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)

Susan, at breakfast, her shoulders wrapped in a serious-toned pelerine, said little. ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)

The students numbering 70 are for the most part supported by their bishops; they attend the Gregorian, and are distinguished by a pelerine and a sky-blue sash. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Her dress is a plain brown frock, with a woollen pelerine of black and aniline mauve over her shoulders, all very trim in honor of the occasion. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

Jack's ribald advice to buy a pelerine, and a green-loden Gemsjäger hat with a feather, stirred me neither to smiles nor anger, for Molly and I were already deep in exploration. ❋ Unknown (1901)

Add a Dunstable straw bonnet with its strings of satin and the frilled pelerine, and this strange young woman might have just stepped from her carriage in the most fashionable avenue in the land. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

She had learned to love this soothing sensation of goodness, as she sat in her blue pelerine on a hard tabouret before her desk, her hands folded in front of her, her little feet demurely crossed. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)

The lady wore a green silk pelerine, and a green bonnet with pink strings, and the gentleman a blue coat and bell hat. ❋ Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1891)

I sent by the carrier for a box, sir, on Saturday last, and would have done sooner, but for waiting for Mrs. Baker to pay for the pelerine I made her out of her uncles 'funeral scarf. ❋ Unknown (1872)

He noticed that her dress was indeed plainer, and yet she seemed quite concerned over the water-soaked state of that cheap thin silk pelerine and merino skirt. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

I sent by the carrier for a box, sir, on Saturday last, and would have done sooner, but for waiting for Mrs. Barker to pay for the pelerine I made out of her uncle's funeral scarf. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)