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

Every two persons shall have a mattress, a paillasse, two blankets, three pair of new sheets, two coats each, six shirts, four pair of shoes, and one capote.

From Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 by Champlain, Samuel de

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

From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman

She had a hood, a capote, a part of her outer garment: it was then drawn so closely round her face that nothing but her sweet eyes were visible.

From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Roper, Edward