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

One Indian enters just as he has left the hunting-field, clad from head to heel in white caribou with the antlers left on the capote as a decoy.

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

Her attire was a peignoir of grey taffetas, lined with blue, and on her head she wore a simple capote of the same.

From Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas by Crowe, Catherine

The Miqueletes, a soldierly body of men in scarlet Basque scones very like to the Carlist head-gear, and a blue capote with cape attached, garrisoned the citadel.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by O'Shea, John Augustus