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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Capote

Capote \Ca*pote"\, n. [Sp. capote (cf. F. capote.), fr. LL. capa cape, cloak. See Cap.] A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
capote

"long cloak with a hood," 1812, from French capote, fem. of capot (17c.), diminutive of cape (see cape (n.1)).

Wiktionary
capote

n. 1 A long coat or cloak with a hood. 2 A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th century Canadian woodsmen.

WordNet
capote
  1. n. a long hooded overcoat [syn: hooded coat]

  2. a long hooded cloak [syn: hooded cloak]

Wikipedia
Capote

Capote may refer to:

Capote (film)

Capote is a 2005 biographical film about Truman Capote, following the events during the writing of Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood. Philip Seymour Hoffman won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the title character. The film was based on Gerald Clarke's biography Capote and was directed by Bennett Miller. It was filmed mostly in Manitoba in the autumn of 2004. It was released September 30, 2005, to coincide with Truman Capote's birthday.

Capote (horse)

Capote (1984–2007) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was best known for his achievements in 1986 when he was voted American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt.

Capote (garment)

A capote or capot is a long coat with a hood.

From the early days of the North American fur trade, both natives and French Canadian voyageurs made wool blankets into capotes, which were perfectly suited to Canada's cold winters. They served as winter outerwear for the habitants and voyageurs of New France and the Métis of the Red River Colony.

The Hudson’s Bay Company also sold capotes, called blanket coats or Hudson Bay coats, made out of Hudson's Bay point blankets.

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.