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

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 Hergesheimer, Joseph

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 Reid, Mayne

The fair bride contributed the white capote, which I remembered on my former visit, and a girdle.

From Visits To Monasteries in the Levant by Curzon, Robert