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cape

[kayp] / keɪp /




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But this room’s premier attraction, from the same film, is the cape worn by Bela Lugosi as the movie’s title character and then kept by the actor for the rest of his life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

From Bela Lugosi’s original ‘Dracula’ cape to a room dripping with blood, here are the highlights of the Academy Museum’s new celebration of horror.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Sanon, who is seen in a cropped top, skirt and a cape, addressed her critics on Tuesday night saying "culture and traditions are in a woman's heart, not in her neckline!"

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

This week, the leader of our second-most-popular political party could be unseated in an election by a man who wears a floor-length cape and a bin over his head.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026

Romero flicked his cape so the color caught the bull's eye.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

That belief is patently untrue, but more difficult to measure if filmmakers and studios refuse to take a real chance on their caped crusadettes.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

Presiding over the baddies, Jared Leto’s blue-skinned, caped, literally boneheaded man-demon Skeletor is meant to be the fiercest of antagonists, but even his own henchmen find his signature evil cackle to be a bit laughable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

This caped crusader effortlessly cradles a colossal Bible in the crook of his left arm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

Mobile phone footage of the incident was shared on social media, with people praising the "barbershop Batman", "haircut hero", and "caped crusader".

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024

The only people in the front seats are a man in full evening dress, which he tries to conceal under a caped coat, and two Ladies in plush opera-cloaks.

From Voces Populi by F. Anstey

The pilgrimage, caping Salonen’s “Rituals,” involves dancer and choreographer Dimitri Chamblas, producer Kate Nordstrom and composer Tim Hecker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

"Superpower" has everything a doubting public could want in the way of reassurance, with its determined hero caping for an embattled nation and who happens to be a huge fan of its president.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2023

In others, however, the writers ply exhausted tropes conflating inclusive storytelling with white savior caping.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2023

All this somehow makes its history-inspired fabrication feel genuine and universal, caping the philosophy that ideals that make the common man super.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2022

This caping technique, which should be done before field dressing to avoid bloodying the hair and making invasive cuts that will be difficult for the taxidermist to conceal, leaves enough hide for a shoulder mount.

From Time Magazine Archive


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