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Cape sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cape sb.2 [16th c. ad. F. cape (cappe), ad. Sp. capa or It. cappa, in same sense. Cotgr., 1611, has ‘cape, a shorte and sleeueless cloake or garment, that hath instead of a cape, a capuche behind it.’]

1   † 1.  A Spanish cloak (with a hood). Obs.

2 1565–78.  Cooper, Thesaurus, Chlamys, a cloke: a Spanish cape.

3 1580.  Baret, Alv., C 63. A spanishe cape: a cloke with an hoode.

4   2.  The tippet of a cloak or similar garment, being an additional outer piece attached to it at the neck and hanging loose over the shoulders (e.g., in old riding-cloaks, infants’ pelisses, etc.).

5 1596.  Shaks., Tam. Shr., IV. iii. 140. I said a gowne … With a small compast cape.

6 1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. 199. Leaues … resembling the cape of a cloke.

7 1818.  Byron, Juan, I. cxxxiv. The mountains … clap a white cape on their mantles blue.

8 1828.  Scott, F. M. Perth, III. 39. Having the cape of [his riding cloak] drawn up.

9   3.  A separate article of attire, being a kind of short loose sleeveless cloak, fitting round the neck and falling over the shoulders as a protection against rain or cold. Waterproof capes of this kind are in common use.

10 [1611.  in Heath, Grocers’ Comp. (1869), 92. Or any other garments, safe only a cape of veluet.]

11 1758.  Johnson, Idler, No. 49, ¶ 3. He … buttoned up his cape, and went forwards.

12 1837.  Hawthorne, Twice-told T. (1851), II. xii. 190. To see the stream of ladies, gliding along the slippery sidewalks, with … quilted hoods, boas, and sable capes.

13 1862.  Miss Yonge, C’tess Kate, vii. 117. Adelaide had meantime picked out a nice black silk cape.

14 1885.  Law Rep., 14 Queen’s B. Div., 274. Such rain as they … caught in their oilskin capes.

15 Mod.  A policeman in his waterproof cape. The fur capes at present worn by ladies.

16   4.  Comb., as cape-bonnet, -cloak, -coat.

17 a. 1613.  Overbury, A Wife (1638), 71. A picketooth in his Hat, a capecloak, and a long stocking.

18 1691.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2631/4. A thin flaxen Hair’d Man, with a black Hat … a brown Frize Cape-Coat.

19 1870.  Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. I. (1873), 247. Decanting secrets out of the mouth of one cape-bonnet into that of another.

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