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
He wore over his uniform a capote of India rubber cloth, which he laid aside when he came into our deck-parlor for a brief sitting and a whiff of tobacco.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
Bring my box-coat!” and he push up a grand capote with many scrapes.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various
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 Samuel de Champlain
They were dressed in the costume of the country: most of them wore light-blue cloth capotes, girded tightly round them by scarlet or crimson worsted belts.
From The Young Fur Traders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The day, I have said, was just breaking, and the officers wore their dark-grey capotes over their uniforms.
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever
On the contrary, a genial warmth prevails, inducing the inhabitants to discard flannel-lined leathern capotes and fur caps for lighter garments.
From The Big Otter by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Their outer wraps were not unlike the men's; so a multitude of blanket capotes flocked toward the Mississippi bank, which at that time had not been washed away, and rose steeply above the water.
From Heroes of the Middle West The French by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
We soon left the region of woods; and being now at an elevation of seven thousand feet above the sea, felt somewhat cold, and buttoned our capotes closer about us.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
