capote
See also: Capote and capoté
English
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Traditional capote made with a Hudson's Bay point blanket.
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Straw capote.
Etymology
Borrowed from French capote.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈpəʊt/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊt
Noun
capote (plural capotes)
- A long coat or cloak with a hood.
- 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 51, p. 86,
- […] pensive o’er his scatter’d flock,
The little shepherd in his white capote
Doth lean his boyish form along the rock,
- […] pensive o’er his scatter’d flock,
- 1967, Joseph Singer and Elaine Gottlieb (translators), The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 359,
- 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.
- 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 51, p. 86,
- (historical) A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.
- 1888, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, October 1888.
- 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.
- 1888, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, October 1888.
- (historical) A close-fitting woman's bonnet.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 123:
- 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.
- 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book 3, Chapter 2, page 308,
- 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.
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Synonyms
- (coat): cappo
Derived terms
- capoted
Anagrams
- PECOTA, Tecopa, acepot, toe cap, toecap
French
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin caput (“head”), with the diminutive French suffix -ote.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.pɔt/
audio (file)
Noun
capote f (plural capotes)
- greatcoat
- (of a car) soft top
- (slang) Ellipsis of capote anglaise (“condom”).
- 1994, “Zig Zag de l'aisé”, in Obsolète, performed by MC Solaar:
- Le pape demande de choisir hostie ou capote / Oh Shit ! Moins de fidèles et plus de sex shops
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Derived terms
- capoter
- décapoter
Descendants
- → English: capote
- → Portuguese: capote
- → Turkish: kaput
Verb
capote
- inflection of capoter:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
See also
- capot
Further reading
- “capote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- écopât
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French capote.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈpɔt/
- Rhymes: -ɔt
- Hyphenation: ca‧pote
Noun
capote f (invariable)
- bonnet (British), hood (US) (of a car)
- soft top
Anagrams
- Capeto
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
capote f (plural capotes)
- condom
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈpɔ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈpɔ.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈpɔ.t(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: ca‧po‧te
Etymology 1
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Noun
capote m (plural capotes)
- cloak
- (bullfighting) cape worn by bullfighters
- Fernando Tordo (lyrics and music) (1973), “Tourada” (in Portuguese): “Entram guizos, chocas e capotes / E mantilhas pretas [Enter rattles, cowbells, and cloaks / And black mantillas]”
- (card games) clean sweep
- (figurative) disguise
- (Brazil, colloquial) condom
Verb
capote
- inflection of capotar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French capot. Doublet of capó.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈpote/ [kaˈpo.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ote
- Syllabification: ca‧po‧te
Noun
capote m (plural capotes)
- cloak
- (bullfighting) cape worn by bullfighters
Derived terms
- capotazo
- capotillo
- echar un capote
Verb
capote
- inflection of capotar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “capote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Yola
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish capote.
Noun
capote
- greatcoat
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 29