I suppose that would look nice with the redingote. From Wordnik.com. [All dressed up and no place to go.] Reference
I am envisioning you wearing a redingote while typing…. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: Summer Blog Blast Tour: Ysabeau Wilce!] Reference
"Your redingote! that you only put on when you are going out?". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Her plum-coloured redingote with its absurd collar arched like a sail emphasised her slenderness. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
The most agitated of the men, he who was clad in a gray redingote, sprang hastily to the carriage door. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
Marillac put the purse in his pocket and the papers in his memorandum-book; he then buttoned up his redingote and put on his travelling cap. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Brocklebank had once cut, in redingote, choker and flowered gilet; and of how people had thought twice before summoning him, owing to his extreme youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
France's government defends the honor of the French language; works to keep foreign words from replacing such pure French terms as biftek, redingote, and choucroute. From Wordnik.com. [TV News -- worse than I thought] Reference
He wore a grey redingote and a shabby bicorne hat. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference
Goethe, in top boots, light kerseymere breeches, redingote and loose. From Wordnik.com. [A Ward of the Golden Gate] Reference
In a moth-eaten redingote long out of style, he dictates to me his latest, an ode. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
Again he advances and with a calm gesture throws open his well-worn grey redingote. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference
He was habited in a long grey or drab redingote, with a white neckcloth and a red ribbon in his button-hole. From Wordnik.com. [The Bed-Book of Happiness] Reference
I was dressed like a poor devil of a notary student, as I am; with my maroon redingote, my black trousers and laced shoes. From Wordnik.com. [A Cardinal Sin] Reference
I was amused at his gala dress for royalty: a much-too-big redingote, a white tie tied a good deal to one side, and only one wig. From Wordnik.com. [In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters] Reference
The white horse was now tethered to a post and the man in the grey redingote was standing in the doorway at the rear of the cottage. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference
I have met an excellent French and English scholar, to whom it was quite a surprise to learn that ‘redingote’ was ‘riding-coat’. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
Page 50 and M. Sicard says he accompanied them till he was quite wet through his redingote; but this enchanting M. d'Arblay will murmur at nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
Enraged beyond measure by his persiflage and very manifest contempt of her, she sprang suddenly upon him, and caught at the lapels of his redingote. From Wordnik.com. [The Trampling of the Lilies] Reference
The two men dismounted and in their turn led their horses into the yard: at sight of them the man in the grey redingote seemed to wake from his sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference
His pale face was flushed under the familiar black, three-cornered cocked hat with its tricolor cockade, his gray redingote was buttoned across his breast. From Wordnik.com. [The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo] Reference
Emperor -- the man with the battered hat and the grey redingote, the curious, flashing eyes and mouth that always spoke genial words to the people of France!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference
Again he shrieked "Maria!" but the matinee across the way only grew in volume; and the unconscious wife had gone into Mrs. Coney's, and was trying on that lady's redingote. From Wordnik.com. [They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important Occasions ...] Reference
Avant de combattre, il tremblait Voyant sa redingote grise. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte]
Good, I have my trousers and waistcoat; fetch me my redingote! ". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
"Sacré redingote! is it that the indigènes pay the governor or give him fish free?. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
Why should I not put on my redingote?. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
"Ha! There is my friend of the red redingote!". From Wordnik.com. [The Trampling of the Lilies] Reference
Avec redingote grise. From Wordnik.com. [Les Souvenirs du peuple] Reference
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