capote
noun
a long cloak with a hood.
capotes
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pluralof capote.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The breath touching their fur caps, or capotes, instantly became white and shining.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin
The day, I have said, was just breaking, and the officers wore their dark gray capotes over their uniforms.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
The dress of the Indians upon this occasion was generally blue cloth capotes with hoods, scarlet or blue cloth leggins, quill-worked moccasins, and no caps.
From Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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 Arthur Henry Howard Heming
They used to wear the company's regulation light blue capotes, or coats, in winter, with flannel shirts, either red or blue, and corduroy trousers gartered at the knee with bead-work.
From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph
