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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Drawn capote of pink crape, adorned in the interior with half-wreaths of green myrtle.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
I was so struck with the tableau that I involuntarily drew nigh, to hear what the little dark man in the capote had to say to the giant in green frock and gilt buttons.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
Bring my box-coat!” and he push up a grand capote with many scrapes.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various
They were dressed in the costume of the country: most of them wore light-blue cloth capotes, girded tightly round them by scarlet or crimson worsted belts.
From The Young Fur Traders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The form of the present style of capotes is very open in front, flat upon the top of the head, and shallow and sloping at the back.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
There were settlers in blanket capotes, shaped like friars' frocks, with hoods to draw over their heads.
From Heroes of the Middle West The French by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
The only discomfort was that, in spite of big mittens and capotes, so much snow had found its way where it was, to say the least, not very welcome.
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
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