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capote

[kuh-poht, ka-pawt] / kəˈpoʊt, kaˈpɔt /






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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 A. C. Laut

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 Maud Howe Elliott

I was so struck with the tableau that I involuntarily drew nigh, to hear what the little dark man in the capote had to say to the giant in green frock and gilt buttons.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid

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 J. E. Laughlin

It was a weird sight, those shepherds in their heavy capotes of sheepskin, and their shadows reflected on the mountain, and gave one the impression of so many spectres gliding in the moonlight.

From Turkey Peeps at Many Lands by Julius R. Van Millingen

The form of the present style of capotes is very open in front, flat upon the top of the head, and shallow and sloping at the back.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

The boatmen, or "engagés," having spent their season's gains in carousal, packed their blanket capotes and were ready for the wilderness again.

From The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin by Frederick Jackson Turner

A few with capotes off were sitting close to the fires, and flipping into the air the browning flap-jacks that were to be eaten the following day.

From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Arthur Henry Howard Heming




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