Obs. [Named after a family of ballet-dancers in the early 19th c.] A kind of overcoat in use in the first half of the 19th c.
18[?]. Scott (Webster). He ought certainly to exchange his taglioni or comfortable great-coat for a cuirass of steel.
1837. Thackeray, Ravenswing, iii. (1887), 167. A rhubarb-coloured coat of the sort which, I believe, are called Taglionis, and which have no waist-buttons.
a. 1845. Barham, Ingol. Leg., Ser. III. Blasphemer’s Warn. I’ve brought to protect myself well, a Good stout Taglioni and gingham umbrella.
1847. Man in Moon, April, I. 201. White Taglioni, with four-in-hand drags on the buttons.
