capote

Example Sentences

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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

The one rule of the trapper's life is to go ahead, let the going cost what it may; and drawing his capote over his face, Koot went on.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

"I am afraid," said he, "that this is a capote," as I played my last card.

From The Watchers A Novel by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

"Butcher's mare here still, G�orgie?" said a huge fellow, with high boots of red-brown leather, and a sheepskin capote belted round him with a red sash.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James