How To Use pelisse In A Sentence
- Looking down at herself, she realized that with her black pelisse, it was impossible to discern whether the coat was merely overly voluminous or if the dress beneath it was actually black as well.
- I'll have a chat with them while you fetch your pelisse and bonnet. A RAKE'S VOW
- I was conscious of a linen bretelle apron under my pelisse, and my mind was far from clear about the propriety of so juvenile a garment. My day : reminiscences of a long life,
- She sat at the bench in the bedchamber, pulling the ecru lace pelisse around her shoulders nervously, listening to the rain slap at the closed shutters by the armoire.
- In the scant light he could see the casual folds of the silk slip in absence of the pelisse.
- One chintz rug, another of wadded silk, four roubles; one pelisse fox skin lined with red ratteen, forty roubles; and lastly, a small hareskin The Daughter of the Commandant
- We should have been very sorry if such a "splendiferous" phenomenon had been obscured by envious boa or pelisse, or lost to the proprieties of costume. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
- There is something strange about this; the women of northern countries cut their dresses out in the neck, they go about bare-headed and bare-armed, while the women of the South cover themselves with vests, haicks, pelisses, and warm garments of every description.
- Two years earlier he had been portrayed in a miniature wearing a pelisse.
- As she got up and moved to support him, she noticed some strange dark stains on his left shoulder, which had been hidden under the pelisse before.
