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
Native reis of the boat has a brown woollen capote over his blue cotton gown, the hood drawn over his turban.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
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
The infantry uniform is almost exactly that of the French—long grey capote, blue tunic with the number of the regiment on the collar, and red trousers.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
Those wonderful jackets and capotes, which are the romance of stage and fancy-ball attire, here appeared as the common prose of every-day dress.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
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
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
Their outer wraps were not unlike the men's; so a multitude of blanket capotes flocked toward the Mississippi bank, which at that time had not been washed away, and rose steeply above the water.
From Heroes of the Middle West The French by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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
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