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‖ sortie de bal|sɔrti də bal| [Fr., lit. ‘departure from (the) ball’.] A woman's evening cloak with a quilted lining, popular in the late nineteenth century.
1864M. B. Chesnut Diary 29 Dec. in C. V. Woodward M. Chesnut's Civil War (1981) xxxix. 696 Mary was wrapped in a snowy swansdown sortie de bal. 1895[see dove n. 1 d]. 1908A. Bennett Old Wives' Tale iii. ii. 296 It was a tall and mature woman who wore over a dress of purplish-black silk a vast flowing sortie de bal of vermilion velvet, looped and tasselled with gold. |