Dictionary

paletot en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈpalɪtəʊ/ (UK)
• /ˈpælˌtoʊ/ (US)
• /ˈpæləˌtoʊ/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English paltokbor. Middle French paltoke French paletotbor. English paletot Borrowed from French paletot.

Meanings

1. (historical) A 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Translations (47)

ca gavany (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · es sobretodo (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · fi palttoo (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · sq pallto (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · de Mantel (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · es abrigo (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · de Überrock (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · ca paltó (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · nl jas (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · no frakk (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · pl palto (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · hu kabát (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · es paletó (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · el μανδύας (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · ru пальто́ (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · nl overjas (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · mg palitao (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · et mantel (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · tl amerikána (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · de Paletot (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · kmr palto (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · pt casacão (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · es gabán (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · ms jas (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · eo palto (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · pt sobretudo (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · ro palton (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · et palitu (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · tr palto (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · pap bachi (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · wa paltot (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · io paltoto (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · ca sobretot (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · da frakke (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · pap yas (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · af jas (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · ca abric (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · bg палто (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · fr paletot (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · el παλτό (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · it paltò (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · pt paletó (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · de Überzieher (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · gd còta (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · vec paltò (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · el σακάκι (A loose outer jacket, overcoat) · hu felöltő (A loose outer jacket, overcoat)