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
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But mademoiselle could only answer by a sob of agony over her capote de Paris, flattened to her head like a Highland bonnet.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
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
Pushing back the hood of his caribou capote to free his ears, he listened, motionless.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.
Beautiful white blanket overcoats, with warm capotes or hoods, had already been made for each of the boys.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by Laughlin, J. E.
There were Frenchmen, Canadian voyageurs, strays of the north-west company, wearing white capotes, and chatting, dancing, and singing their boat-songs with all the ésprit of their race.
From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.
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 Graydon, William Murray
The only discomfort was that, in spite of big mittens and capotes, so much snow had found its way where it was, to say the least, not very welcome.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by Laughlin, J. E.
They crouched at home, in cellars and basements, wrapt in rough capotes, or hovering around a mangal, or brazier of coals, the usual substitute for a stove.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)