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cagoule

British  
/ kəˈɡuːl /

noun

  1. Also spelt: kagoul.   kagoule.  Sometimes shortened to: cag.  a lightweight usually knee-length type of anorak

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of cagoule

C20: from French

Example Sentences

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"After 10 years of investigating, all they had to show was a plimsoll and cagoule that everyone wore," he said.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2023

In the other, Seth Rogen, in a teal cagoule.

From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2019

Meanwhile, Rogen’s character barely changes at all, apart from losing the teal cagoule.

From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2019

So if you've got tickets for one of those, bring a cagoule.

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2012

In the first row, and among those who were most bent over the bed, four were noticeable, who, from their gray cagoule, a sort of cassock, were recognizable as attached to some devout sisterhood.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

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