PELISSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pelisse mean? 

• PELISSE (noun)
  The noun PELISSE has 1 sense:

1. a sleeveless cape that is lined or trimmed with fur

  Familiarity information: PELISSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PELISSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sleeveless cape that is lined or trimmed with fur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pelisse" is a kind of...):

cape; mantle (a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter)

 Context examples 

If I thought it would not tempt her to go out in sharp winds, and grow coarse, I would send her a new hat and pelisse.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And I was placed there, by whom I don't know: I was in no condition to note particulars; I was only aware that they had hoisted me up to the height of Mr. Brocklehurst's nose, that he was within a yard of me, and that a spread of shot orange and purple silk pelisses and a cloud of silvery plumage extended and waved below me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She had some sort of scarlet pelisse with white swans-down about her neck, and she held the reins slack in her hands, while the pony wandered from side to side of the road as the fancy took him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The young ladies who approached her at first with some respect, in consideration of her coming from a baronet's family, were soon offended by what they termed airs; for, as she neither played on the pianoforte nor wore fine pelisses, they could, on farther observation, admit no right of superiority.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Thorpe, however, had one great advantage as a talker, over Mrs. Allen, in a family of children; and when she expatiated on the talents of her sons, and the beauty of her daughters, when she related their different situations and views—that John was at Oxford, Edward at Merchant Taylors', and William at sea—and all of them more beloved and respected in their different station than any other three beings ever were, Mrs. Allen had no similar information to give, no similar triumphs to press on the unwilling and unbelieving ear of her friend, and was forced to sit and appear to listen to all these maternal effusions, consoling herself, however, with the discovery, which her keen eye soon made, that the lace on Mrs. Thorpe's pelisse was not half so handsome as that on her own.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But it was not to be our last memory of the lady with the scarlet pelisse, for before the week was out Jim came round to ask me if I would again go up with him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The one with red cheeks is called Miss Smith; she attends to the work, and cuts out—for we make our own clothes, our frocks, and pelisses, and everything; the little one with black hair is Miss Scatcherd; she teaches history and grammar, and hears the second class repetitions; and the one who wears a shawl, and has a pocket-handkerchief tied to her side with a yellow ribband, is Madame Pierrot: she comes from Lisle, in France, and teaches French.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I had no more discoveries to make than you would have as to the fashion and strength of any old pelisse, which you had seen lent about among half your acquaintance ever since you could remember, and which at last, on some very wet day, is lent to yourself.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Few children can eat when excited with the thoughts of a journey; nor could I. Bessie, having pressed me in vain to take a few spoonfuls of the boiled milk and bread she had prepared for me, wrapped up some biscuits in a paper and put them into my bag; then she helped me on with my pelisse and bonnet, and wrapping herself in a shawl, she and I left the nursery.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Georgiana added to her How d'ye do? several commonplaces about my journey, the weather, and so on, uttered in rather a drawling tone: and accompanied by sundry side-glances that measured me from head to foot—now traversing the folds of my drab merino pelisse, and now lingering on the plain trimming of my cottage bonnet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)