capote
noun
a long cloak with a hood.
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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
Pushing back the hood of his caribou capote to free his ears, he listened, motionless.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by George P. Marsh
Brent stared, speechless, as his swift glance took in the details of her moccasins, deer-skin leggings, short skirt, white capote and stocking cap.
From Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
The warm tongue sought the face of the drowsy man, and the dog, not to be put off, thrust her nose roughly into his robe, whimpering as she pulled at his capote.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by George P. Marsh
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
“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
Author Truman Capote hosted a legendary Black and White Ball in New York in 1966 -- and the look is still a red carpet winner.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
With those things in mind, Capote carefully describes each mouth-watering delicacy as if filling a stage set.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The tribes residing and roaming within the limits of New Mexico are the Navajoes; the Mescalero, Gila, and Jicarilla bands of Apaches; the Muache, Capote, and Weeminuche bands of Utes; and the Pueblos.
From The Indian Question (1874) by Francis Amasa Walker
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
We have also seen very pretty capotes covered with net, made of very lively colored taffeta.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
The wild-looking mariners were lounging lazily about in their shaggy capotes, or engaged in loading their vessels with grain, the product of the neighboring plains.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
But just then I heard voices, and two voyageurs, in the blue capotes of the Hudson Bay Company, came out of the timber about twenty yards off.
From The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada by William Murray Graydon
Then came the levies of the colony, in gray capotes and gaudy sashes, and the trained battalions from old France in cuirass and head-piece, veterans of European wars.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
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