paletot

plural paletots

1. historicalA 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 …

   1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 24, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC

2. A women’s fitted jacket.

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

   1894, Lucy C[ecil] Lillie, chapter XXVI, in A Family Dilemma: A Story for Girls, Philadelphia, Pa.: Porter & Coates, →OCLC, page 171

   2 more examples

   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.

   1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature, page 93

   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

   2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 833