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

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 Lever, Charles James

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 Laut, A. C.

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 Marsh, George P.