1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Pelisse

PELISSE (through the Fr. from Lat. pellicia: sc. vestis, a garment made of fur, pellis, skin), properly a name of a cloak made or lined with fur, hence particularly used of the fur-trimmed "dolman" worn slung from the shoulders by hussar regiments. The word is now chiefly employed as the name of a long-sleeved cloak of any material worn by women and children.