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

Over all is worn the shaggy white capote.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

"Butcher's mare here still, G�orgie?" said a huge fellow, with high boots of red-brown leather, and a sheepskin capote belted round him with a red sash.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

A hunter's knife and short-handled woodman's axe hang through the beaded scarf, belting in his loose, caribou capote.

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