different between pelisse vs poncho

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French pelisse, from Latin pellis (“skin”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pélla, “skin”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??li?s/

Noun

pelisse (plural pelisses)

1. A fur-lined or fur robe or gown, especially as part of a uniform.
2. (historical) A silk gown formerly worn by women, often lined or trimmed with fur.
   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     Mrs. Wix, after Miss Overmore's last demonstration, addressed herself wholly to the little girl […] , drawing from the pocket of her dingy old pelisse a small flat parcel […]

3. An overgarment worn by Victorian children when outside.
   • 1848, William Mzkepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:

     Crawley is made to put on the brightest pea-green in her wardrobe, and my pupils leave off their thick shoes and tight old tartan pelisses, and wear silk stockings and muslin frocks, as fashionable baronets' daughters should.

Translations

Further reading

• pelisse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Seipels, Seiples, pieless

French

Noun

pelisse f (plural pelisses)

1. pelisse

Further reading

• “pelisse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish poncho, from Quechua punchu. In sense “rubber rain poncho”, attested 1845, used for non-South American garments in the United States and England from 1850s, popularized by US Western expeditions and military from 1850s, particularly after World War II (1940s).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?n.t???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?n.t?o?/
• Rhymes: -?nt???

Noun

poncho (plural ponchos or ponchoes)

1. A simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head.
   • 1975, Margery Turner Fisher, Who's Who in Children's Books, page 203

     Garibaldi, with his cowboy's poncho, red shirt and the black ostrich feathers in his wide hat […]

   • 2011, Bruce N. Anderson, Wingtips Under a Bolivian Poncho, page 130

     It was a gringo in a poncho. It was not really accurate to his suits worn today, but Julia would understand the symbolism that he was adapting to the culture and expectations while far away from home.

2. A similar waterproof garment, today typically of rubber with a hood.
   • 1845, William Jameson, “Botanical Excursion to Salinas, an Indian Village on Chimborazo”, The London Journal of Botany, Volume 4, p. 382:

     […] spreading over my bedding an indian-rubber poncho to exclude the rain.

   • 1850, Romance of Modern Travel, p. 43:

     I […] took my seat between Juan and Ambrosio, protected from the rain by an India-rubber poncho.

   • 1857, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, p. 48 (1857), p. 48 (1858):
   • I found it necessary while doing guard to cover myself with my India-rubber poncho, to prevent my clothes from becoming saturated with water.
   • 1859, Randolph Barnes Marcy, The Prairie Traveler, p. 39:

     The following list of articles is deemed a sufficient outfit for one man upon a three months’ expedition, viz.: […] 1 gutta percha poncho

   • 1858, “Robbery in a Railway Carriage” (1858 March 29), Edmund Burke ed., Annual Register (collected 1859), March p. 59:

     […] when near the old church in Manchester he was run against by a man whom he supposed to be a drunken man, who was dressed in a poncho overcoat.

   • 1888, William Eleroy Curtis, The capitals of Spanish America, p. 505:

     It is about the size of the rubber poncho used in the United States, […]

   • 2001, Michael Rutter, Camping Made Easy, 2nd ed., page 98

     If you have to hike all day in a poncho, your pants will be wet thigh-high before long (never mind how fast you'll get wet if you have to go through wet brush or grass).

Translations

Related terms

• ruana
• slicker

French

Noun

poncho m (plural ponchos)

1. poncho

Japanese

Romanization

poncho

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Karao

Noun

poncho

1. money collected for a common purpose

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n.t???/

Noun

poncho n

1. Alternative spelling of ponczo.

Declension

or

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• poncho in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• poncho in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua punchu.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?põ?u/

Noun

poncho m (plural ponchos)

1. poncho

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pont??o/, [?põn?.t??o]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua punchu.

Noun

poncho m (plural ponchos)

1. poncho

See also

• ruana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

poncho

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of ponchar.

Further reading

• “poncho” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.