paletot
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From French paletot.
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[edit] Noun
paletot (plural paletots)
- (historical) A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.
- A women’s fitted jacket.
- 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
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 833:
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A loose outer jacket, overcoat
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English paltok, of uncertain origin.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
paletot m. (plural paletots)