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

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

Reaching Marcel, the husky seized a skin sleeve of his capote and arching her great back, fought the slippery footing in a mad effort to drag him from the water.

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

He wore over his uniform a capote of India rubber cloth, which he laid aside when he came into our deck-parlor for a brief sitting and a whiff of tobacco.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward