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

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 Pollock, Frank Lillie

When he buttoned his own big rain capote around her she trembled under his hands.

From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman

"I am afraid," said he, "that this is a capote," as I played my last card.

From The Watchers A Novel by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)