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
Over all is worn the shaggy white capote.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
This rug is to the Montenegrino what the capote is to the Greek and Albanian, his companion in all weathers—his shelter against the storm, and his bed at night.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
Passing them was a slender woman muffled in a black silk capote, with no hat to cover the intricate mass of her hair piled against a high comb.
From The Bright Shawl by Joseph Hergesheimer
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
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
We have seen capotes of taffeta, and ribbon applied like flounces as ornaments to the crown; these ribbons are cut into teeth or plain, but with a narrow border of much brighter shade.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
Notwithstanding this emptiness, however, they had a somewhat furnished appearance, from the number of greatcoats, leather capotes, fur caps, worsted sashes, guns, rifles, shot-belts, snow-shoes, and powder-horns with which the walls were profusely decorated.
From Hudson Bay 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
