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 Tucker, St. George

Pushing back the hood of his caribou capote to free his ears, he listened, motionless.

From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.

Scarcely was the stranger left alone than the door opened, and a man entered, shaking the snow from his heavy boots and his long capote.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James