In addition to this umbrella-like ornament on its head, it has what may be called a pelerine suspended from the neck, formed by a thick fan of glossy steel-blue feathers which grow on a long fleshy lobe or excrescence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

Scrubby coat and trousers, dirty shirt, scarf, and cap, socks more like anklets for holes, and a pair of split boots; bedraggled hat, frowsy jacket, blouse and skirt, squashy boots, and perhaps a patchy "pelerine" or mangy "boa" -- such is accepted as the natural costume for the heirs of all the ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays in Rebellion] Reference

Even the brooch which fastened her lace pelerine was of plain gold only.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Robe] Reference

Dust off your whalebone bodice and prettiest pelerine and come listen to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Observer -] Reference

'Is anybody else a-goin', Tommy? 'said Mrs. Cluppins, arranging her pelerine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pickwick Papers] Reference

Susan, at breakfast, her shoulders wrapped in a serious-toned pelerine, said little.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Black Pennys A Novel] Reference

Lady Janet laid an indicative finger on the lace pelerine which ornamented the upper part of her dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Magdalen] Reference

Dear Child, -- You, the joy of the household, you, whose pink or white pelerine flutters in summer among the groves of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Celibates] Reference

The lady wore a green silk pelerine, and a green bonnet with pink strings, and the gentleman a blue coat and bell hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference

Her pelisse was of "violet-des-bois" figured silk, worn with a black velvet pelerine and a handsomely embroidered collar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities] Reference

What colds she used to catch, walking with me along the banks of the river after sunset, clad in a muslin dress and lace pelerine!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear for the Future] Reference

She wore ruffled lavender with a clear lace pelerine caught at her breast by a knot of straw-coloured ribbon and sprig of rose geranium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Black Pennys A Novel] Reference

The students numbering 70 are for the most part supported by their bishops; they attend the Gregorian, and are distinguished by a pelerine and a sky-blue sash.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

Jack's ribald advice to buy a pelerine, and a green-loden Gemsjäger hat with a feather, stirred me neither to smiles nor anger, for Molly and I were already deep in exploration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Princess Passes] Reference

She wore a guipure pelerine of spidery texture, a gown of blue velvet, the graceful corsage of which was buttoned with opals, and her hair in bands as smooth and shining as ebony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrix] Reference

Reasoning thus, and much better than this, she was very particular about her hat, and French pelerine of fluted lawn, and frock of pale violet trimmed on either side with gathered muslin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference

She had learned to love this soothing sensation of goodness, as she sat in her blue pelerine on a hard tabouret before her desk, her hands folded in front of her, her little feet demurely crossed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes] Reference

For these reasons she dressed her hair with marabouts, put on her prettiest gown of gray and pink, which allowed her fine shoulders to be seen beneath a pelerine of black lace, and took care to keep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lesser Bourgeoisie] Reference

The nuns 'repast was soon finished, and one came with a very agreeable, open countenance and fresh, brown complexion, well fed and happy-looking, becomingly dressed in snow-white hood and pelerine and brown gown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2] Reference

And the girl stating in reply to his inquiry that her father had bought that pelerine as a present for her, not many days before, of a pedlar in a neighbouring town, to the market of which the farmer resorted weekly.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference

‘Is anybody else a – goin’, Tommy?’ said Mrs. Cluppins, arranging her pelerine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference

Arthur,’ whispered Flora, ‘would you object to putting your arm round me under my pelerine?’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Dorrit] Reference

I was there three days; made tea every night; washed the poodle every morning, and clear-starched her Sunday pelerine, with my own hands on Saturday evening.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference

This was a subject on which she never wearied, and I was pressing for its continuance, when we beheld a lady approaching, leaning on a gentleman's arm -- a handsome woman in a rich pelerine and jewellery -- and with a start my companion caught my arm, crying softly: "Mrs Thrale -- Mrs Piozzi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference

As she heard these words, after flashing a mischievously inquisitive look at the furniture of her father's study, the young girl brought forward the armchair which looked as if it had been least used by petitioners, set it at the side of the fireplace so as to sit facing her father, and settled herself in so solemn an attitude that it was impossible not to read in it a mocking intention, crossing her arms over the dainty trimmings of a pelerine a la neige, and ruthlessly crushing its endless frills of white tulle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ball at Sceaux] Reference

I was there three days; made tea every night; washed the poodle every morning, and clear-starched her Sunday pelerine, with my own hands on Saturday evening. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference

As she heard these words, after flashing a mischievously inquisitive look at the furniture of her father’s study, the young girl brought forward the armchair which looked as if it had been least used by petitioners, set it at the side of the fireplace so as to sit facing her father, and settled herself in so solemn an attitude that it was impossible not to read in it a mocking intention, crossing her arms over the dainty trimmings of a pelerine a la neige, and ruthlessly crushing its endless frills of white tulle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ball at Sceaux] Reference

Marines, or a pelerine of Honiton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lovels of Arden] Reference

J'allois en pelerine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.] Reference