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
  • Charlene donned a white dress underneath a matching coat, along with a mantilla, a lace veil that is traditionally worn by women in the Catholic Church.
    Hannah Malach, InStyle, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The rest of the Grimaldi clan were dressed in black, with the female family members covering their hair with a mantilla.
    Séraphine Roger, Vanity Fair, 28 Mar. 2026
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
  • His girlfriend, Leona Alvarado, also 16 and from Georgia, wore a matching American flag dress and cape and cowboy boots.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Filling the capes of the trio audiences watched grow up will be Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley.
    Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 26 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
  • 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
  • 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 7 Apr. 2026.

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