paletot

noun

1. (historical)A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.

   “[W]hen his services were not required at the House, in his usual favourite costume, namely, his light green frock or paletot …”

2. A women’s fitted jacket.

   “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.”

   “She flung off her sealskin paletot and the beautiful felt hat, not heeding that they rolled off the untidy bed upon the floor.”

   “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”