capote
noun
a long cloak with a hood.
capote
1 American
[kuh-poht, ka -pawt]
/ kəˈpoʊt, kaˈpɔt /
noun
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capotes
plural
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a long cloak with a hood.
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a close-fitting, caplike bonnet worn by women and children in the mid-Victorian period.
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a bullfighter's cape; capa.
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an adjustable top or hood of a vehicle, as a buggy.
Capote
2
American
[kuh-poh-tee]
/ kəˈpoʊ ti /
noun
Capote
1
British
/ kəˈpəʊtɪ /
noun
capote
2
British
/ kapɔt, kəˈpəʊt /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of capote
1790–1800, < French, equivalent to cape (< Spanish capa cape 1 ) + -ote, feminine of -ot diminutive suffix
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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
"I am afraid," said he, "that this is a capote," as I played my last card.
From The Watchers A Novel by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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 Charles James Lever
I was so struck with the tableau that I involuntarily drew nigh, to hear what the little dark man in the capote had to say to the giant in green frock and gilt buttons.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
He followed Truman Capote around Kansas while the author was researching for his 1966 novel, “In Cold Blood.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Jean Alexander Capote lost his mother-in-law in the disaster and cried with frustration as he searched for his stepdaughter among the ruins.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
With Manhattan views and beer served from the antique metal water valves, it’s a good place to contemplate why Truman Capote famously called New York “a diamond iceberg floating in river water.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
He was reviewing the 1968 television movie “The Thanksgiving Visitor,” an adaptation of the Truman Capote short story.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
Their chief, Capote Bleu, once exclaimed to an American officer: “Oh my father, how many glorious battles we might have fought, and not lost so many men!”
From The Great Salt Lake Trail by Henry Inman
We soon left the region of woods; and being now at an elevation of seven thousand feet above the sea, felt somewhat cold, and buttoned our capotes closer about us.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
There were settlers in blanket capotes, shaped like friars' frocks, with hoods to draw over their heads.
From Heroes of the Middle West The French by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
They were clad in the capotes, leggings, fur caps, moccasins, and fingerless mittens usually worn by the men of the settlement in winter.
From The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
They crouched at home, in cellars and basements, wrapt in rough capotes, or hovering around a mangal, or brazier of coals, the usual substitute for a stove.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
There were Frenchmen, Canadian voyageurs, strays of the north-west company, wearing white capotes, and chatting, dancing, and singing their boat-songs with all the ésprit of their race.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
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