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
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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
The one rule of the trapper's life is to go ahead, let the going cost what it may; and drawing his capote over his face, Koot went on.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
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 Catherine Crowe
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
Their uniform was similar, except that they had wings to their capotes instead of worsted epaulettes.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
The heavy fur caps, with the big fur ears, were well drawn down, while, over all, the warm capotes, as hoods, were pulled up on the head and down in front to the nose.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin
Notwithstanding this emptiness, however, they had a somewhat furnished appearance, from the number of greatcoats, leather capotes, fur caps, worsted sashes, guns, rifles, shot-belts, snow-shoes, and powder-horns with which the walls were profusely decorated.
From Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
We have also seen very pretty capotes covered with net, made of very lively colored taffeta.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
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