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

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

The one rule of the trapper's life is to go ahead, let the going cost what it may; and drawing his capote over his face, Koot went on.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

Reaching Marcel, the husky seized a skin sleeve of his capote and arching her great back, fought the slippery footing in a mad effort to drag him from the water.

From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.