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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A hunter's knife and short-handled woodman's axe hang through the beaded scarf, belting in his loose, caribou capote.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
The one rule of the trapper's life is to go ahead, let the going cost what it may; and drawing his capote over his face, Koot went on.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
As he spoke, the procuratore drew a letter from under his capote, and presented it to the General.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
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
They used to wear the company's regulation light blue capotes, or coats, in winter, with flannel shirts, either red or blue, and corduroy trousers gartered at the knee with bead-work.
From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph
We have also seen very pretty capotes covered with net, made of very lively colored taffeta.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
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
The wild-looking mariners were lounging lazily about in their shaggy capotes, or engaged in loading their vessels with grain, the product of the neighboring plains.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various