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
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
This man was muffled to the eyes in furs, he wore a rough bearskin coat, and his head was enveloped in a huge capote.
From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Edward Roper
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 George P. Marsh
Then came the levies of the colony, in gray capotes and gaudy sashes, and the trained battalions from old France in cuirass and head-piece, veterans of European wars.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
But for these capotes much of the snow would have found its way into their faces and down under the collars of their coats.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin
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
We soon left the region of woods; and being now at an elevation of seven thousand feet above the sea, felt somewhat cold, and buttoned our capotes closer about us.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
They were all dressed alike, in light cloth capotes with hoods, corduroy trousers, striped shirts open in front, with cotton kerchiefs tied sailor-fashion loosely round their swarthy necks.
From Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
