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

When he buttoned his own big rain capote around her she trembled under his hands.

From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman

But mademoiselle could only answer by a sob of agony over her capote de Paris, flattened to her head like a Highland bonnet.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

A hunter's knife and short-handled woodman's axe hang through the beaded scarf, belting in his loose, caribou capote.

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