capote
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The shape has almost the same shape as the capote for bullfighting, in beautiful pink silk, with yellow or blue in the back.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2015
"I could have presented the capote when the head passed, as others do, but I wanted to do it honestly, because the bull was honest," Celestino explains.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The man was alone, muffled in a great capote, carrying a rifle over his shoulder, and something on his back—possibly his game.
From Northern Diamonds by Frank Lillie Pollock
Riley Tyler threw off his blanket capote, dragged from an inner pocket a disguise similar to the sheriff's and hurriedly put it on.
From The Rider of Golden Bar by William Patterson White
The Miqueletes, a soldierly body of men in scarlet Basque scones very like to the Carlist head-gear, and a blue capote with cape attached, garrisoned the citadel.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
Over all they flung capotes, which extended to their knees and were caught in at the waist with a scarlet sash.
From Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin by Coningsby Dawson
They were all dressed alike, in light cloth capotes with hoods, corduroy trousers, striped shirts open in front, with cotton kerchiefs tied sailor-fashion loosely round their swarthy necks.
From Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
They were clad in the capotes, leggings, fur caps, moccasins, and fingerless mittens usually worn by the men of the settlement in winter.
From The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The breath touching their fur caps, or capotes, instantly became white and shining.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin
There were Frenchmen, Canadian voyageurs, strays of the north-west company, wearing white capotes, and chatting, dancing, and singing their boat-songs with all the ésprit of their race.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
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