Wordie: Pelisse: Comments

Comment by chained_bear, 9 months ago

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:28:29 +0000

"'He pranced about, keeping a stable of race-horses and entertaining like a lord-lieutenant and covering his wife with diamonds and taffeta mantuas...'

"'Taffeta mantuas, Captain Goole?' cried his wife.

"'Well, expensive garments. Paduasoy—Indian muslin—silk: all that kind of thing. And a fur pelisse.'

"'How I should love some diamonds and a fur pelisse,' said Mrs Goole, but not aloud: and she conceived a rather favourable opinion of Captain Aubrey."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Reverse of the Medal, 12

Comment by chained_bear, 9 months ago

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:22:27 +0000

"...and Sophie was to buy herself a new pelisse, a fine new tippet..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 297

Comment by brtom, 10 months ago

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:31:54 +0000

"In babylinen and pelisse, bigheaded, with a caul of dark hair, fixes big eyes on her fluid slip and counts its bronze buckles with a chubby finger, his moist tongue tolling and lisping." Joyce, Ulysses, 15