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
Vie, revie, surrevie, capote, double capote, were the terms that rang through the room, as the excited gamesters, with anxious faces, sorted and examined their cards.
From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by St. George Tucker
This rug is to the Montenegrino what the capote is to the Greek and Albanian, his companion in all weathers—his shelter against the storm, and his bed at night.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
Over all is worn the shaggy white capote.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
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 John Lloyd Stephens
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
They were all dressed out in new light-blue capotes and corduroy trousers, which they tied at the knee with beadwork garters.
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
The day, I have said, was just breaking, and the officers wore their dark gray capotes over their uniforms.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
