[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- A loose coat, cloak, or other outer garment. Now chiefly historical.

- A fitted jacket worn by women. Now usually more fully "paletot jacket".


Phrases:

Origin:
late 18th century; earliest use found in Robert Burns (1759–1796), poet. From French paletot, † palletot kind of waistcoat, jacket worn by women or girls, overcoat, alteration of Middle French, French † palletoc