manteau - Wiktionary
2017-9-29 · manteau (plural manteaus or manteaux) A cloak or gown, especially of a kind popular with women in the 17th and 18th centuries. 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 915: Not to mention the need to keep her manteau from becoming a sort of anti-parachute which sought to lift her free of the pavement.
