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capote

noun

kə-ˈpōt

Definition of capote

as in cloak

a sleeveless garment worn so as to hang over the shoulders, arms, and back the traveler wore a long hooded capote as he walked over the moors

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Recent Examples of capote In the first and third, the matador performs a series of passes of the bull through capes, first a large pink and yellow cape known as a capote and then a smaller red cape. — Elizabeth Findell, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020

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Noun

This, Rostov’s main thoroughfare, wasn’t illuminated by the familiar bright glare of its many street lamps, or by light from its windows, now blacked out, but emerged from the darkness all the more gently in a milky cloak of moonlight.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2026
Atari wore elephant-print pants and a purple wizard’s cloak, and kept handy a face mask emblazoned with the words what if love wins?

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

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Like a matador swirling his cape, Patrick Roden-Reynolds pulled a swatch of white flannel this way and that on the grass and leaf litter in my yard.

— Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Lauren wore a vintage Elie Saab dress sourced from Happy Isles paired with a custom cape made by Chatorrier.

— Shelby Wax, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026

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