English

Alternative forms

• roquelaire

Noun

roquelaure ‎(plural roquelaures)

1. (now archaic, historical) A lined and trimmed cloak that reaches to the knees, often with bright-coloured lining and trimmed with fur. [from 18th c.]
   • 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Cask of Amontillado’:

     Putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaire closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo.

   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 97 (ISBN 1857150570)

     “Oh Miss Thorne, look here!” said she, as soon as she found herself in the drawing-room, ”do look at my roquelaure! It's clean spoilt, and for ever."