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.
Double-breasted coat cut in a tunic style (i e , a coat with a skirt all the way around) (Carman)
[pal'-c-to ] A corruption of palla-toque, a cloak with a hood Called by Piers Plowman a paltock The hood or toque has disappeared, but the word remains the same