pelisse

Borrowed from Middle French pelice (modern French pelisse), from Late Latin pellicia, from Latin pellis (“skin”), from Ancient Greek πέλλα (pélla, “skin”). Doublet of pilch.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈliːs/

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• Rhymes: -iːs
• Homophone: police

pelisse (plural pelisses)

1. A fur-lined robe or cloak, especially as part of a uniform.
2. (now historical) A long cloak formerly worn by women, with a shoulder cape or hood, often lined or trimmed with fur.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, pages 256-257:

     The mother was crimson in countenance and pelisse, and her ample dimensions spoke years of peace and plenteousness.

   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     Mrs. Wix, after Miss Overmore's last demonstration, addressed herself wholly to the little girl […] , drawing from the pocket of her dingy old pelisse a small flat parcel […]

3. (now rare) An overgarment worn by children when outside.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:

     Crawley is made to put on the brightest pea-green in her wardrobe, and my pupils leave off their thick shoes and tight old tartan pelisses, and wear silk stockings and muslin frocks, as fashionable baronets' daughters should.

• pelisse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Seipels, Seiples, pieless

pelisse f (plural pelisses)

1. pelisse

• “pelisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.