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
Scarcely was the stranger left alone than the door opened, and a man entered, shaking the snow from his heavy boots and his long capote.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
The warm tongue sought the face of the drowsy man, and the dog, not to be put off, thrust her nose roughly into his robe, whimpering as she pulled at his capote.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by George P. Marsh
He drew his capote over his face to shade his eyes; but the pace and the sun grew so hot that he was soon running again unprotected from the blistering light.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
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
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
They were all dressed out in new light-blue capotes and corduroy trousers, which they tied at the knee with beadwork garters.
From Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
But just then I heard voices, and two voyageurs, in the blue capotes of the Hudson Bay Company, came out of the timber about twenty yards off.
From The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada by William Murray Graydon
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