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
  • Paredes poses in a black dress whose style imitates that of a classic Spanish mantilla shawl.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 30 July 2025
  • Some women donned a mantilla, a veil that typically signifies more traditionalist Catholic belief and practice.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Last night, Anya Taylor-Joy attended the premiere of her film The Gorge in a strapless white Dior minidress with a pleated capelet that fanned out like wings.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Her third dress of the night was extra special, as her sister, Natali Germanotta, made the teal crepe back satin silk velvet dress with a feather capelet for her.
    Hedy Phillips, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike most superhero costumes, this heroine's look doesn't require a cape!
    Emma Kershaw, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The model wore an off-white peasant blouse with ruffled sleeves, a leather studded corset, teal and white bloomers, and a magnificent ruffled cape.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Iredell County Animal Services (ICAS) warned residents in the Troutman area on Wednesday, Sept. 17, that a capuchin monkey is on the loose.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
  • His name is Frankie, a capuchin monkey who has lived in his cage in Pet Stop for nearly two decades.
    Madeline King, Kansas City Star, 29 July 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
  • The researchers believe the mantas are using nature's cues such as changes in magnetic field strength, oxygen concentration, temperature and light to navigate themselves onto the right path for the next days' travel.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The mantas are still spotted in May and October, but in fewer numbers.
    Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
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“Pelerine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pelerine. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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