roquelaure

plural roquelaures · alternative rockalow · alternative roquelaire

1. archaichistoricalA lined and trimmed cloak that reaches to the knees, often with bright-coloured lining and trimmed with fur.First known use 18th c.

   Putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaire closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo.

   1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

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   “Oh Miss Thorne, look here!” said she, as soon as she found herself in the drawing-room, ”do look at my roquelaure! It's clean spoilt, and for ever."

   1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 97