paletot

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English

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Etymology

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From French paletot.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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, published 2007, page 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

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French paltoke, paletoc, from Middle English paltok; first element related to Latin pallium (cloak), second element of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pal.to/
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Noun

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paletot m (plural paletots)

  1. paletot, jacket

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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