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
The man was alone, muffled in a great capote, carrying a rifle over his shoulder, and something on his back—possibly his game.
From Northern Diamonds by Frank Lillie Pollock
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 Robert Curzon
A hunter's knife and short-handled woodman's axe hang through the beaded scarf, belting in his loose, caribou capote.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
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
One telegram states that General Bartolome Maso has been elected, while another, on equally good authority, says that the new Cuban president is Señor Domingo Mendez Capote.
From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 47, September 30, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Julia Truitt Bishop
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
The only discomfort was that, in spite of big mittens and capotes, so much snow had found its way where it was, to say the least, not very welcome.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin
The heavy fur caps, with the big fur ears, were well drawn down, while, over all, the warm capotes, as hoods, were pulled up on the head and down in front to the nose.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The breath touching their fur caps, or capotes, instantly became white and shining.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin
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