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
Every two persons shall have a mattress, a paillasse, two blankets, three pair of new sheets, two coats each, six shirts, four pair of shoes, and one capote.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 by Samuel de Champlain
Pushing back the hood of his caribou capote to free his ears, he listened, motionless.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by George P. Marsh
I had already contrived additional warm clothing of fur and blankets, with a hood or capote.
From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Edward Roper
It was a weird sight, those shepherds in their heavy capotes of sheepskin, and their shadows reflected on the mountain, and gave one the impression of so many spectres gliding in the moonlight.
From Turkey Peeps at Many Lands by Julius R. Van Millingen
A few with capotes off were sitting close to the fires, and flipping into the air the browning flap-jacks that were to be eaten the following day.
From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Arthur Henry Howard Heming
But for these capotes much of the snow would have found its way into their faces and down under the collars of their coats.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin
The heavy fur caps, with the big fur ears, were well drawn down, while, over all, the warm capotes, as hoods, were pulled up on the head and down in front to the nose.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin
Then came the levies of the colony, in gray capotes and gaudy sashes, and the trained battalions from old France in cuirass and head-piece, veterans of European wars.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
