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

She had a hood, a capote, a part of her outer garment: it was then drawn so closely round her face that nothing but her sweet eyes were visible.

From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Roper, Edward

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

This man was muffled to the eyes in furs, he wore a rough bearskin coat, and his head was enveloped in a huge capote.

From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Roper, Edward