paletot

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From French paletot.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈpalɪtəʊ/

[edit] Noun

paletot (plural paletots)

  1. (historical) A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.
  2. 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

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English paltok, of uncertain origin.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

paletot m. (plural paletots)

  1. jacket

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