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mantelet

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as in pelisse

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Rather than betray alienation, her surviving correspondence—mostly to Cassandra—talks of fabrics, caps and pelisses (a type of woman’s cloak); social calls, dinners, and balls; the weather; her mother’s health; and people—often dozens of names.

— Robert Garnett, WSJ, 14 July 2017

Definition of pelisse

Noun

Some of the women had their hair covered in lace mantillas, an old Catholic custom.

— Jane Arraf, NPR, 23 June 2026
One of the hallmarks of its origins is a tile work from 1928 by Ernest Batcheler, an American artist of Dutch descent, that portrays a Spanish woman wearing a pink traditional Sevilla dress with frills, a shawl with fringe and a headpiece known as a mantilla.

— Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2026

Definition of mantilla

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For example, the adoption of a marmoset by a capuchin monkey.

— Cyril Grueter, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2026
The connection to nature at Vista Celestial is truly profound, with wildlife waiting for you at the door—I'm not kidding, at one point, a capuchin monkey walked onto our patio to say hello.

— Christina Perrier, InStyle, 8 June 2026

Definition of capuchin

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The palatine tonsils are the ones seen at the back of the throat.

— Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
During the Thirty Years’ War, military enterprisers included such figures as Ernst von Mansfeld, who raised an army for the elector palatine, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, who offered his services to Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman emperor.

— Allison Stanger, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015

Definition of palatine

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Under Binface’s black cape, rubbish bin and ample body armor that looks straight out of a low-budget sci-fi film, is a middle-aged comedian named Jon Harvey trying to keep his cool during a sweaty summer.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
But these capes are actually flexible antennae that will allow the craft to peer beneath the Red Planet's surface in search of water ice.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of cape

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For her label Anissa Aida, designer Anissa Meddeb, who lives in the capital, makes gossamer silk blouses evoking the striped motif of handwoven fouta towels and voluminous coats inspired by the burnoose cloaks worn by Berbers.

— Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2020
On a rainy day men wore winter-weight burnooses with the large hoods drawn up—enigmatic Jedi-like figures in the medina's alleyways.

— Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015

Definition of burnoose

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Divers captured video footage of Galápagos sharks approaching manta rays and deliberately rubbing parts of their bodies, especially their heads, gill regions and sides, against the mantas’ undersides.

— Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
The resident Manta Trust team has catalogued 150 individual rays and uses the world's first underwater contactless ultrasound scanner to check on pregnant mantas, while the Olive Ridley Project leads turtle research across Laamu Atoll.

— Jonny Bierman, Time, 12 Mar. 2026

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