The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inverness \In`ver*ness"\, n., or Inverness cape \In`ver*ness" cape"\ A kind of full sleeveless cape, fitting closely about the neck.
Robert's wind-blown head and tall form wrapped in an
Inverness cape.
--Mrs. Humphry
Ward.
Wikipedia
The Inverness cape is a form of weatherproof outercoat. It is notable for being sleeveless, the arms emerging from armholes beneath a cape.
Usage examples of "inverness cape".
He was wearing an Inverness cape over his tweedy sports coat and had a Holmesian deerstalker cap on his head at a slightly skewed angle.
He could feel the cold, winter dampness across his broad back through the thick wool of his inverness cape.
They began shouted goodbyes and endless waving to dear Papa standing on the dock in his inverness cape, arms and shoulders draped in the just unpacked extra pairs of knee breeches and fancy vests, not one but two cocked hats stacked on his head, and several white stocks hanging around his neck.
I was covered by a good heavy Inverness cape I'd bought to disguise my form if not my height.
His white hair had lain long on the tweed collar of his Inverness cape, and on his twisted, deformed hands he wore woollen mittens from which the useless fingers protruded, white and bloodless as bones.
Three years of English life evidently turned his head, for he returned to Wheaton in 1913 wearing an Inverness cape, smoking a pipe, and talking with a peculiarly orotund accent—.
Thus he was dressed in his evening attireas Holmes himself, complete with stalking hat and Inverness cape!
At Calais in 1902, a figure in an Inverness cape transferred to a Channel ferry.
But in the street he was a remarkable figure in an Inverness cape made for a bigger man, crowned by a bowler hat.