Capote. World English Historical Dictionary

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[a. F. capote, a fem. form, answering to capot masc., dim. of cape CAPE.]

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  1.  a. A long shaggy cloak or overcoat with a hood, worn by soldiers, sailors, travellers, etc. b. A long mantle reaching to the feet, worn by women.

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1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., II. lii. The little shepherd in his white capote.

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1836.  W. Irving, Astoria, I. 56. Emerging … like spectres from the hatchways, in capotes and blankets.

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1854.  Thackeray, Newcomes, II. 299. The ladies came down, pretty capotes on.

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1857.  Emerson, Poems, 97. Frocks and blouses, capes, capotes.

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1877.  Kinglake, Crimea, VI. vi. 94. His troops in their sombre capotes.

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  2.  A close-fitting hat of cap-like form.

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1882.  Society, 14 Oct., 24/1. Some of the capôtes have had their dimensions reduced to such a degree as to attain merely the form of a skull-cap.

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1886.  St. James’s Gaz., 25 Sept., 11/1. New bonnet and capote shapes.

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