I wore a gray felt hat, a travelling Paletot, and Hessian boots, such as were then the fashion in California.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
He was a man of about thirty, with light hair, wearing a gray Paletot.
"Napoleon the Little"
Victor Hugo
In short, Milby is now a refined, moral, and enlightened town; no more resembling the Milby of former days than the huge, long-skirted, drab great-coat that embarrassed the ankles of our grandfathers resembled the light Paletot in which we tread jauntily through the muddiest streets, or than the bottle-nosed Britons, rejoicing over a tankard, in the old sign of the Two Travellers at Milby, resembled the severe-looking gentleman in straps and high collars whom a modern artist has represented as sipping the imaginary port of that well-known commercial house.
"Scenes of Clerical Life"
George Eliot