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 Howe, Julia Ward
Passing them was a slender woman muffled in a black silk capote, with no hat to cover the intricate mass of her hair piled against a high comb.
From The Bright Shawl by Hergesheimer, Joseph
The man was alone, muffled in a great capote, carrying a rifle over his shoulder, and something on his back—possibly his game.
From Northern Diamonds by Pollock, Frank Lillie
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 Laughlin, J. E.
The wild-looking mariners were lounging lazily about in their shaggy capotes, or engaged in loading their vessels with grain, the product of the neighboring plains.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
They were all dressed alike, in light cloth capotes with hoods, corduroy trousers, striped shirts open in front, with cotton kerchiefs tied sailor-fashion loosely round their swarthy necks.
From Hudson Bay by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Over all they flung capotes, which extended to their knees and were caught in at the waist with a scarlet sash.
From Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin by Dawson, Coningsby
But they were merely Greek pedlers or travelling merchants, and, without any more noise, kindled the fire anew, drew their capotes around them, stretched themselves upon the floor, and were soon asleep.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by Stephens, John Lloyd
