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Noun

capote (plural capotes)

• A long coat or cloak with a hood.
  • ✤ […] pensive o’er his scatter’d flock,
    The little shepherd in his white capote
    Doth lean his boyish form along the rock,¹
  • ✤ It was said that the Rabbi of Kotsk had been in Favor of European dress, but the Rabbi of Gur and his followers had insisted on the Russian capote, trousers tucked into the boots, a kerchief around the neck, and the Russian cap adapted to the native style.²
• (historical) A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.
  • ✤ The fourth member of our party round the camp-fire that night was a powerfully built trapper, partly French by blood,who wore a gayly colored capote, or blanket-coat, a greasy fur cap, and moccasins.³
• (historical) A close-fitting woman’s bonnet.
  • ✤ A discreet visitor on such occasions advances straight to the window or the glass: Emily did the latter; and five minutes of contemplation ascertained the fact that her capote would endure a slight tendency to the left.⁴
  • ✤ Tied round her head with a large bow and flying blue ribbons under the chin, was a fragile flat Capote like a baby’s bonnet, which allowed her hair to escape in front and her great chignon behind.⁵

Etymology

Borrowed from French capote. Doublet of capot and kaput.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kəˈpəʊt/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• Rhymes: -əʊt

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Footnotes

1. 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage ‎${}^{[1]}$, London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 51, p. 86: ↩

2. 1967, Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Singer and Elaine Gottlieb, The Manor ‎${}^{[2]}$, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 359: ↩

3. 1888 October, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: ↩

4. 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 123: ↩

5. 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale ‎${}^{[3]}$, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book 3, Chapter 2, page 308: ↩