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

As he spoke, the procuratore drew a letter from under his capote, and presented it to the General.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne

One Indian enters just as he has left the hunting-field, clad from head to heel in white caribou with the antlers left on the capote as a decoy.

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

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