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 White capote has the potential to reach 50 feet in height and tolerate wetter soil than most fruit trees and will yield a good crop in less than full sun exposures. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 10 July 2025 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
  • But in practice, the race for chair has not stopped some party players’ tactics from veering into the cloak and dagger.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Two actors hired to do Spartacus-style cosplay in velvet cloaks fell from their posts in the heat.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • The three characters, who make up the Monsters Cereal lineup, are each in their signature look: Count Chocula sports his brown cape, Boo Berry wears his yellow hat and red bow-tie, and Franken Berry is decked out in his monochrome strawberry-pink ensemble.
    Erin Clements, People.com, 29 July 2025
  • To reach the cape, take a ferry to Moreton Island and walk the Cape Moreton track to the Cape Moreton Lighthouse, Queensland’s only stone lighthouse.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2025

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“Capote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capote. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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