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pelerine

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɛ.ləˌɹiːn/Sorted eeeilnprStarts with PEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A kind of short cape or covering for the shoulders, associated especially with medieval pilgrims (of any gender).

Word origin

Borrowed from French pèlerine, feminine of pèlerin (“pilgrim”), from Late Latin pelegrīnus. First attested in 1744.

Used in a sentence

  • […] Around his shoulders, he wore a thick gray pelerine. This was the custom of the knights of the Kingdom of the Spears, the land of the beaches and the chalk cliffs with great castles[…]
  • Beneath the pale light crouched an ancient white-haited man, wrapped against the rain in a threadbare maroon pelerine. “Alms, sire,” he croaked, his eyes wide and fearful, his face lean and hungry. He was so thin […]

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