paletot

From French paletot.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpalɪtəʊ/

paletot (plural paletots)

1. (historical) A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.
2. A women’s fitted jacket.
   • 1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature (page 93)

     For morning fetes is worn with this dress a small white muslin paletot, without sleeves, split up the back, trimmed with two gauffred frills, edged with Valenciennes, and a narrow puffing, lined with satin ribbon.

   • 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

From Middle English paltok, of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /pal.to/

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paletot m (plural paletots)

1. jacket

• “paletot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• pelotât