pelerine

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Noun
  • Rather than betray alienation, her surviving correspondence—mostly to Cassandra—talks of fabrics, caps and pelisses (a type of woman’s cloak)
    Robert Garnett, WSJ, 14 July 2017
Noun
  • Queen Camilla’s monochrome attire and choice of mantilla fall under papal protocol, requiring women who meet with the pope to wear black and a veil, symbolizing respect and modesty.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Camilla, 78, followed tradition with her black ensemble, wearing a silk dress by Fiona Clare and a mantilla by Philip Treacy.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Wear it over jeans or a coat for a waist-defining moment; knotted over your shoulder as a capelet, or loose for undone elegance.
    Talia Abbas, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Alternatively, consider adding drama to your look with a capelet, a major trend among New York Fashion Week attendees.
    Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The beading alone on the empire waist dress took over 600 man hours to make, and featured cute cape sleeves and a daring low back.
    Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Queen Latifah wore a red strapless gown accompanied by a sheer layered cape, while Kaia Gerber kept it classic with a red silhouette gown that featured a high cutout.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Reflecting on her many memorable on-set experiences with animals, from leading the Saturday morning kids show Thunder with a horse to her infamous encounter with Marcel the capuchin on Friends, Hardin remains as ardent an animal lover as ever.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Shawnee has a special permit carved out for Frankie, a capuchin monkey that’s lived in a pet store for nearly two decades.
    Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Advertisement That breakthrough set the tone for the rest of the conference, paving the way for several major victories that followed, including Appendix I listings for whale sharks, as well as manta and devil rays.
    Juan Carlos Navarro, Time, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The whale shark, one of only three filter-feeding sharks and the largest fish in the ocean, and the manta and devil rays have joined the list that offers the strictest restrictions on trade, called Appendix I. Whale sharks are at risk from overfishing as well as being struck by ships.
    Gareth J. Fraser, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
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“Pelerine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pelerine. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.

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