Noun: pelisse
| Singular | pelisse |
| Plural | pelisses |
Sample Sentences
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The mother was crimson in countenance and pelisse, and her ample dimensions spoke years of peace and plenteousness. [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:]
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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 […] [1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:]
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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. [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like pelisse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French pelisse, from Late Latin pellicia, from Latin pellis (“skin”). Doublet of pilch. See: French Nouns '
pelisse', Latin Nouns '
pellis'.