paletot

From French paletot.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpalɪtəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpæləˌtoʊ/, /ˈpælˌtoʊ/

paletot (plural paletots)

1. (historical) A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.
   • 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 2057953:

     [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.
   • 1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature (page 93)

     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.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 833:

     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

From Middle French paltoke, paletoc, from Middle English paltok; first element related to Latin pallium (“cloak”), second element of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /pal.to/

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paletot m (plural paletots)

1. paletot, jacket

• → Catalan: paltó
• → English: paletot
• → German: Paletot
• → Persian: پالتو‎
• → Polish: palto
• → Spanish: paltó
• → Bulgarian: палто (palto)
• → Russian: пальто (palʹto)
• → Ukrainian: пальто (palʹto)
• → Greek: παλτό (paltó)

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

• “paletot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pelotât