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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

You use extra energy, you eat a banana; this is the smallest inconvenience the change in seasons has to offer, less annoying than having to find your cagoule.

From The Guardian • Oct. 30, 2019

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

From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2019

They meet at a glitzy Manhattan fundraiser, to which Rogen rocks up in his cagoule, then falls down a flight of stairs.

From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2019

Even a Grey Penitent would have been moved, coming unawares into that gay company, to throw off his cagoule and to dance a saraband.

From The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)

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