Charles Stewart, in hussar uniform with a military pelisse slung over the shoulder, 1812 portrait by Thomas Lawrence
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A pelisse was originally a short fur-trimmed jacket which hussar light-cavalry soldiers from the 17th century onwards usually wore hanging loose over the left shoulder, ostensibly to prevent sword cuts. The name also came to refer to a fashionable style of woman's coat-like garment worn in the early-19th century.
Look up pelisse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A pelisse was originally a short fur-trimmed jacket which hussar light-cavalry soldiers from the 17th...
hair became universal. The uniform of the Napoleonic hussars included the pelisse, a short fur-edged jacket which was often worn slung over one shoulder...
the chest. A Red Pelisse (jacket): The pelisse was introduced in 1762. With the introduction of the new dolman in 1870, the pelisse was removed from the...
A witzchoura (sometimes witz-chouras) was a type of mantle, pelisse, or sleeved cloak, with a large collar and, sometimes, a hood, that was particularly...
the officer pelisse A Guard Hussar in mounted parade uniform, including the red pelisse, sabretache and shabraque Foot parade, without pelisse The Royal...
Pelsken), also called The Little Fur (German: Das Pelzchen; French: La Petite Pelisse), or Helena Fourment in a Fur Robe, is a c. 1636–1638 portrait by Peter...
high-waisted cut of the dress was also applied to outer garments, such as the pelisse. The Empire silhouette contributed to making clothes of the 1795–1820 period...
remembered him at a rehearsal: "[He] was on the stage with his crimson pelisse and gold-laced cocked hat, giving the time of the music to the orchestra...
hussar regiment's ceremonial uniform for enlisted members has a crimson pelisse. A regiment of the British Army, The King's Royal Hussars still wears crimson...
yellow piping. In theory, the pelisse is madder with yellow braids and trimmed with black fur. In fact, it was the pelisses originally intended for the...
nineteenth century sometimes made of the same cloth as the gown beneath it Pelisse, an early-nineteenth-century high-waisted and fitted long coat Basque bodice...
Mikhail Lermontov Lermontov in a military pelisse of the Hussar Life Guards Regiment, 1837 Born Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov 15 October [O.S. 3 October] 1814...
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