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    capote
    noun
    a long cloak with a hood.
  • Capote
    Capote
    noun
    Truman, 1924–84, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
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capote

1 American  
[kuh-poht, ka-pawt] / kəˈpoʊt, kaˈpɔt /

noun

capotes plural
  1. a long cloak with a hood.

  2. a close-fitting, caplike bonnet worn by women and children in the mid-Victorian period.

  3. a bullfighter's cape; capa.

  4. an adjustable top or hood of a vehicle, as a buggy.


Capote 2 American  
[kuh-poh-tee] / kəˈpoʊ ti /

noun

  1. Truman, 1924–84, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.


Capote 1 British  
/ kəˈpəʊtɪ /

noun

  1. Truman. 1924–84, US writer; his novels include Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) and In Cold Blood (1964), based on an actual multiple murder

"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

capote 2 British  
/ kapɔt, kəˈpəʊt /

noun

  1. a long cloak or soldier's coat, usually with a hood

"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

Other Word Forms

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Etymology

Origin of capote

1790–1800, < French, equivalent to cape (< Spanish capa cape 1 ) + -ote, feminine of -ot diminutive suffix

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

Pushing back the hood of his caribou capote to free his ears, he listened, motionless.

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

Before I could remove the wide capote which I wore, the waiter ushered me into a large salon where a party of about forty persons were seated at supper.

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Lever, Charles James

It really was Horace Osborne, but he was almost unrecognizable in his muffling capote, long hair, and a three months' growth of beard.

From Northern Diamonds by Pollock, Frank Lillie

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