half-coat

Updated: June 13, 2025

In those days the Hussar regiments still wore over the left shoulder that attractive attachment, or frilled half-coat, hanging loosely behind like the wounded wing of a bird, which was called the pelisse, though it was known among the troopers themselves as a 'sling-jacket. It added amazingly to their picturesqueness in women's eyes, and, indeed, in the eyes of men also.

Thomas Hardy - A Changed Man; and other tales