capote
noun
a long cloak with a hood.
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capote
1 American
[kuh-poht, ka -pawt]
/ kəˈpoʊt, kaˈpɔt /
noun
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
The fair bride contributed the white capote, which I remembered on my former visit, and a girdle.
From Visits To Monasteries in the Levant by Curzon, Robert
He wore over his uniform a capote of India rubber cloth, which he laid aside when he came into our deck-parlor for a brief sitting and a whiff of tobacco.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
For instantly there flashed up a picture of her wet face looking at him from under her capote hood on the day that he found her standing in the rain beside her fallen horse.
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman
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
The film’s director, Blake Edwards; costume designer, Edith Head; and Capote will appear as characters in the film, although their casting has not been announced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
“The Crown” beat him to it, so we got “Capote vs. The Swans” along with its greatest accomplishment: Bowen Yang’s Truman Capote impersonation on “Saturday Night Live.”
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
Every one saw the wisdom of Gomez's suggestion, and Capote was elected.
From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 48, October 7, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Bishop, Julia Truitt
Beautiful white blanket overcoats, with warm capotes or hoods, had already been made for each of the boys.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by Laughlin, J. E.
A few with capotes off were sitting close to the fires, and flipping into the air the browning flap-jacks that were to be eaten the following day.
From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Heming, Arthur Henry Howard
Notwithstanding this emptiness, however, they had a somewhat furnished appearance, from the number of greatcoats, leather capotes, fur caps, worsted sashes, guns, rifles, shot-belts, snow-shoes, and powder-horns with which the walls were profusely decorated.
From Hudson Bay by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
We have seen capotes of taffeta, and ribbon applied like flounces as ornaments to the crown; these ribbons are cut into teeth or plain, but with a narrow border of much brighter shade.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
It forced its way into their eyes and noses and pockets, and tried to get under their caps and capotes.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by Laughlin, J. E.
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