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
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
As he spoke, the procuratore drew a letter from under his capote, and presented it to the General.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
It really was Horace Osborne, but he was almost unrecognizable in his muffling capote, long hair, and a three months' growth of beard.
From Northern Diamonds by Frank Lillie Pollock
But just then I heard voices, and two voyageurs, in the blue capotes of the Hudson Bay Company, came out of the timber about twenty yards off.
From The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada by William Murray Graydon
Their outer wraps were not unlike the men's; so a multitude of blanket capotes flocked toward the Mississippi bank, which at that time had not been washed away, and rose steeply above the water.
From Heroes of the Middle West The French by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
The day, I have said, was just breaking, and the officers wore their dark gray capotes over their uniforms.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
The wild-looking mariners were lounging lazily about in their shaggy capotes, or engaged in loading their vessels with grain, the product of the neighboring plains.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
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
