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

"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)

Bring my box-coat!” and he push up a grand capote with many scrapes.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various

Native reis of the boat has a brown woollen capote over his blue cotton gown, the hood drawn over his turban.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe