capote

Example Sentences

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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

Over all is worn the shaggy white capote.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

It really was Horace Osborne, but he was almost unrecognizable in his muffling capote, long hair, and a three months' growth of beard.

From Northern Diamonds by Pollock, Frank Lillie

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 Champlain, Samuel de