Author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Usage examples of capote.

Jessie got into the cariole and was bundled up to the tip of the nose with buffalo robes, the capote of her own fur being drawn over the head and face.

Rita and Ali, Liz and Dick, Rainier and Grace, Coward, Capote, Warhol.

My quilt and my pelisse were spread, and the rest of my party had all their capotes or pelisses, or robes of some sort, which furnished their couches.

About midnight we fell asleep upon the ground, wrapped in our capotes, and dreamed of ladies and tombs and prophets till the neighing of our horses announced the dawn.

In fact, he wore Indian leggins and a capote under his scarlet blanket.

But beshrew me, he cried, clapping hand to his forehead, tomorrow will be a new day and, thousand thunders, I know of a marchand de capotes, Monsieur Poyntz, from whom I can have for a livre as snug a cloak of the French fashion as ever kept a lady from wetting.

She knew them all: Rita and Ali, Liz and Dick, Rainier and Grace, Coward, Capote, Warhol.

And that handsome looking fellow putting the capote under his head is a French half-breed--you heard him talking.

With a blue capote and a chicken in his shako, here's the banlieue, co-cocorico.

She gestured toward the window, and I saw that it was filled with articles of worn clothing of every kind, jelabs, capotes, smocks, cymars, and so on.

He doesn't claim to have been abducted by extraterrestrials and given a proctological exam, doesn't prowl the woods in search of Big Foot or Babe the blue ox, isn't writing a novel channeled to him by the spirit of Truman Capote, and doesn't wear an aluminum-foil hat to prevent microwave control of his thoughts by the American Grocery Workers Union.