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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This man was muffled to the eyes in furs, he wore a rough bearskin coat, and his head was enveloped in a huge capote.
From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Edward Roper
Bring my box-coat!” and he push up a grand capote with many scrapes.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various
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
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
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
There were Frenchmen, Canadian voyageurs, strays of the north-west company, wearing white capotes, and chatting, dancing, and singing their boat-songs with all the ésprit of their race.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
It forced its way into their eyes and noses and pockets, and tried to get under their caps and capotes.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin