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

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 Laut, A. C.

It really was Horace Osborne, but he was almost unrecognizable in his muffling capote, long hair, and a three months' growth of beard.

From Northern Diamonds by Pollock, Frank Lillie