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

For instantly there flashed up a picture of her wet face looking at him from under her capote hood on the day that he found her standing in the rain beside her fallen horse.

From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman

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.

Bring my box-coat!” and he push up a grand capote with many scrapes.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various