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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The Miqueletes, a soldierly body of men in scarlet Basque scones very like to the Carlist head-gear, and a blue capote with cape attached, garrisoned the citadel.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
"I am afraid," said he, "that this is a capote," as I played my last card.
From The Watchers A Novel by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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 Frank Lillie Pollock
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 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
We soon left the region of woods; and being now at an elevation of seven thousand feet above the sea, felt somewhat cold, and buttoned our capotes closer about us.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
A few with capotes off were sitting close to the fires, and flipping into the air the browning flap-jacks that were to be eaten the following day.
From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Arthur Henry Howard Heming
The only discomfort was that, in spite of big mittens and capotes, so much snow had found its way where it was, to say the least, not very welcome.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin