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
I had already contrived additional warm clothing of fur and blankets, with a hood or capote.
From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Roper, Edward
Every two persons shall have a mattress, a paillasse, two blankets, three pair of new sheets, two coats each, six shirts, four pair of shoes, and one capote.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 by Champlain, Samuel de
Reaching Marcel, the husky seized a skin sleeve of his capote and arching her great back, fought the slippery footing in a mad effort to drag him from the water.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.
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
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
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 clad in the capotes, leggings, fur caps, moccasins, and fingerless mittens usually worn by the men of the settlement in winter.
From The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
They were dressed in the costume of the country: most of them wore light-blue cloth capotes, girded tightly round them by scarlet or crimson worsted belts.
From The Young Fur Traders by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
